Source: Bruce Remembers
Family Search: When Lieutenant-Colonel George Whitford Nelson was born on 4 May 1884, in Amabel Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Samuel M Nelson, was 47 and his mother, Sarah A Johnston, was 39. He had at least 2 daughters with Edna May Merrill. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and York, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as accountant. He died on 6 April 1935, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.More
PDF file of Transcription of Major Nelson’s Letters
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 