Source: Via Twitter We Are the Dead
Family Search: When Private Barrington Ambrose Rucker was born on 17 October 1893, in Virginia, United States, his father, Orlando Childs Rucker Sr., was 34 and his mother, Juanita Miller, was 28. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as orange picker. He died on 4 December 1915, in Étaples, Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Private Rucker was BENJAMIN Rucker of Bedford County, Virginia, USA. He embellished his information on his attestation papers – changing his name and birth location and providing a fanciful occupation – “orange picker.” Ben’s father was an attorney in Bedford County, VA, and Ben appears there with the family in both the 1900 and 1910 US censuses. In 1910, he is one of seven children, all born in Virginia. He was certainly in school although this is not indicated on the census.
Source: Anne Lewis Leyden (47527891) via Find-A-Grave.
Note that a news article exists in Fort William Daily Times Journal, 14 Jan 1916 titled “Fort William Doctor Takes Bullet From Brain Of Soldier Who Regains Health After Remarkable Operation” relating to Major John G. Hunt and Private Rucker. in the article Pte. Rucker survives. The following keywords are present: Great War ; World War I ; WWI ; Major John G. Hunt ; Fort William resident/doctor ; Army Medical Corps ; Preforms operation on Pte. Rucker ; 18th Battalion ; No.1 Canadian Military Hospital.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 