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I found the marriage between Malcolm McNeil and Mildred Margaret Albon on the 7th June 1916 she gives her age as 25 and he as 35 which would give his birth year as 1881 and not 1869.
How would I go about getting a death certificate in Canada??  Very curious to know what Mildred died of.

Hi Ken S
Thank you for going too so much trouble on my behalf, it means a great deal to me. I have just found out that their daughter Doris died in November 2003.
I wonder what Mildred's long illness was, it is so sad that she died so young. Please could you resend email address as as soon as I opened it it disappeared.
Thank you
DowneyD

Thank you all for your efforts on my behalf.
I had not found the records of Mildred's journey to Scotland, although the Barnardo's letter said that she had visited Amos in Scotland.   A big thank you. I did not know where Malcolm and Mildred McNeil were  buried so another big thank you.
Both of Frank's siblings had tried to locate him after he stopped contacting them in 1912.
I feel that he must have wanted to be 'lost' to the family, he changed his surname, and did not put his family as next-of-kin when he signed up for the CEF.  I find this rejection of his family strangely personal.
Both Mildred and Amos, went on trying to locate him through Barnados every decade.  Mildred and Amos were in continuous contact despite the physical distance that divided them. 
Barnardos tried to locate Frank contacting the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the Lund's, The National Registration Bureau and the Department of National Defence, but without success.
Thank you all so much, will keep looking into all the leads.
Downey D

Thank you all,
For taking so much trouble to help me with all this information, I am very new to this, so as much information, in an ABC approach, is appreciated.  Including all offers of help. When Frank was born in Staines, Middlesex, England, his D.O.B. was 04/02/1889,  this was changed to 1890 as you say in his attestation papers, along with his surname from Albon to Allen.  I do not know much about the British Home Children yet, but I am learning. Do you think he changed his own name??? His brother my g. grandfather was left behind in the UK and sent to live with a relative in Scotland. Amos tried to keep in contact with both of his siblings through Dr Barnados, he lost touch with Frank when his name was changed, it was thought that Frank died in WW1.  They had a sister  Mildred Albon who was sent to Canada under the British Home Children in 1905. Mildred went into a McNeil household as a domestic servant. She later married a Malcolm McNeil and had one daughter Doris McNeil. Doris married a Larry McComb and they unfortunately had no children. I have been unable to find out any details of birth marriage  or death for these individuals.
thank you all so much for your help
Downey D