Distinguished Conduct Medal entry may be in error. No record of a D.C.M. in soldiers service record.
Family Search: When Sergeant George Swainsbury was born on 13 September 1887, in Bow, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Swainsbury, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Crispin, was 20. He married Rebecca Ellen Spurgeon on 2 December 1912, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1912 and lived in Mile End, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as machinist in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 June 1916, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 28, and was buried in Zillebeke, Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
LATE SERGT. G. SWAINSBURY D.C.M.
The distinguished conduct medal was awarded to the late Sergt. George Swainsbury, who was killed in action at St. Eloi in 1916, posthumously. The late Sergt. Swainsbury enlisted in October, 1914 and went overs with the original first battalion.
Note: Sergeant Swainsbury never served with the “first battalion”. He was promoted sergeant on November 4, 1914, just after his enlistment in later October.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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