Source: August 1917 casualty.
Family Search: When Private George Watson Munro was born on 27 February 1896, in Palgrave, Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, Peter Munro, was 36 and his mother, Annie Innes Watson, was 35. He lived in Cardwell, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as farmer in Palgrave, Peel, Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 August 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 21, and was buried in Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, France.
He was killed by a shell bursting on a road on 21 August 1917.
Private George Watson Munro. Regimental no. 775534.
This man enlisted with the 126th (Peel) Overseas Battalion at Brampton, Ontario, on 8 January 1916. He was a labourer by trade and had no prior military experience.
He embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for England on 14 August 1916, arriving at Liverpool on the 24th aboard the SS Empress of Britain.
He was transferred to the 116th on 15 October 1916 and was moved to Bramshott Camp. He was then transferred to the 18th Battalion and arrived at the Canadian Base Depot, Harve on 29 November 1916, and arrived “in the field” with the 18th Battalion on 3 December 1916.
He was wounded with a GSW to the nose and sent to No. 2 Canadian Field Ambulance on 24 March 1917. This required further treatment at No. 7 Canadian General Hospital, and he returned to the Battalion on 14 May 1917.
He was killed by a shell bursting on a road on 21 August 1917.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 