Source: Per Roll of Honour in Duty Nobly Done. Found during cross-check of database.
Family Search: Private John Robert Smith was born on 6 February 1890, in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Smith and Mary Ann. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as farmer in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 3 February 1919, in Witley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 28, and was buried in Dunham on Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
Wounded by shell bursting in road on August 21, 1917.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 