Source: Earned the Military Medal for “Bravery in the Field” during the actions at the Somme September 1916.
Family Search: When Lance-Corporal Reginald Heber Ribton was born on 12 March 1892, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, his father, Reginald Ribton, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Ribton, was 30. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Fairview, Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland in 1911 and Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as bank clerk, merchant’s bank in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 July 1917, in Villers-au-Bois, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 25, and was buried in Villers-au-Bois, Pas-de-Calais, France.
This soldier enlisted with the 18th Battalion (reg. no. 53280) at Windsor, Ontario on October 26, 1914. He was a bank clerk working for The Merchants Bank of Canada. The 18th Battalion travelled to England, trained, and began active service in September 1915.
The then Private Ribton earned a Military Medal for “bravery in the field” during the Battalion’s assignment to the Somme in the fall of 1916. He was appointed the rank of Lance-Corporal on October 20, 1916.
Moving with the Battalion he was mortally wounded by German shell bursting in the billet he was staying in and died of wounds at No. 9 Canadian Field Ambulance on the same day.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 