Regimental Number: 3207129
Rank: Private
Branch: 1st Depot Battalion, Aberta Regiment; Canadian Army Service Corps
Layton was born in Armada, Michigan on October 9, 1897. He filed on a homestead at NW 27-71-9-W6 in 1917. Layton was drafted into the Canadian Army in May of 1918; at this time, he gave his address as Lake Saskatoon. He served only in England. When the current address card in Layton’s service file was filled out at some point in the 1920s, Layton was living in Michigan.