CVWM Page: Note that this page incorrectly attributes this soldier’s battalion as the 13th. The CWGC site’s Grave Registration Report and Register both indicated that this soldier is a member of the 18th Battalion.
Note that the Nominal Roll lists his forename incorrectly as Kennington.
Source: Regimental Rouge
Family Search: When Sergeant Remington George Vickery was born on 25 May 1894, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Edwin Vickery, was 34 and his mother, Alice Emma Smith, was 32. He immigrated to Canada in 1912 and lived in London, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as ironworker in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
BOY SCOUT LEADER “KILLED IN ACTION”
Lance-Corp. Vickery Reported in Sunday List Well Known Here.
Lance-Corp. Remington G. Vickery, who was reported killed in action in Sunday night’s casualty lists, was well known to the younger generation of this city, being prominent in Boy Scout circles. Corporal Vickery was about 20 years of age. His home is in Eastleigh, near Southampton, England, and he had been in this country about two years.
For practically all that time he had been assistant-scoutmaster of the 8th London Troop of Boy Scouts of the Dundas Centre Church and was regarded by all who knew him as a most promising young man. While in London he was employed at Beattie Brothers’.
Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Advertiser. Circa 1916.
TWO REPORTED KILLED WRITE THEY ARE ALIVE; ONE A GERMAN PRISONER
Relatives of Ptes. Beecher Ward and Remington Vickery Receive Welcome News From Young Soldiers They Had Mourned as Dead.
Like voices from the dead, came two postcards delivered in London yesterday on the arrival of the overseas mail, for they brought the best possible news to relatives and friends of Ptes. Beecher Ward and Remington G. Vickery, both of whom had been reported as having been killed in action last month.
As announced in last evening’s Advertiser, Pte. Ward’s parents got a card from him in a German prison camp at Wurtemberg, stating that he is wounded and a prisoner, but that his wound, which is in the leg, is healing nicely.
Writing under date of June 22 from Belgium to G. Metcalfe of 390 William street, Pte. Vickery says he is alive and well.
Until the receipt last evening of the card, which is a regulation British army postal card, nothing had been heard for some weeks from Vickery, and the official report of his death was taken by his friends here as confirmation of the end during the battle of Hooge, which had raged for several days prior to the publication of the list of June 5.
Well as Usual.
The card read as follows: To G. Metcalfe, 390 William street, London, Canada, June 22, 1916. Field Postoffice, Belgium, “Am well as usual, received your last letter and will answer it shortly. Signed Remington G. Vickery.”
The signature and writing on the card were easily recognizable by Mr. Metcalfe, he and Vickery having chummed together for years previous to Vickery’s enlisting.
Vickery enlisted with the 18th Battalion, but evidently was transferred to some other branch of the service while in England and subsequently moved to Belgium, from where the card was dated.
Was in Foundry.
Before enlisting he was employed at Beattie Bros. foundry and boarded at 408 Rectory street. He had no relatives in Canada, his family living at Eastley, England, from which place he came direct to London several years ago.
He was about 22 years of age at the time of enlistment. He was assistant scoutmaster of the 8th London Troop of Boy Scouts whose headquarters are at Dundas Centre Methodist Church.
London Advertiser. July 11, 1916. Page 3.
Description
A 1914-15 Star, in bronze, full size, reverse impressed 53168 L.CPL. R.G.VICKERY. 18/CAN:INF, light wear, loss of gilt, very fine.
A British War Medal, in silver, full size, rim officially impressed 53168 L.CPL. R.G. VICKERY. 18-CAN. INF., minor wear, dark patina around edges, very fine.
A Victory Medal, in bronze gilt, full size, rim officially impressed 53168 L.CPL. R.G. VICKERY. 18-CAN. INF., minor wear and scratches, very fine.
A Mother in Sacrifice Medal, in bronze, reverse engraved ALICE VICKERY, suspension engraved REMINGTON VICKERY, medal marked WILLINGS MFG.CO TORONTO, worn on a purple velvet ribbon with brooch pin on the reverse, measures 28 mm 
x 78 mm (h – inclusive of suspension), light wear, ribbon split, remains very fine.
An 18th Battalion Cap Badge, Type I, in browning copper, measures 34mm x 39mm (h), two lugs on reverse, light contact, very fine.
Footnote: Remington Vickery was born on May 25, 1894 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England to John and Alice Vickery. He emigrated to Canada in 1912, and resided in London, Ontario. He was employed as an ironworker with two weeks of service with the 7th regiment, when he enlisted with the 18th battalion on October 23, 1914.
His unit sailed on April 18, 1915, arriving on the 29th. He was reported wounded in May 1916. In June, 1916 he was promoted to corporal in the field, and was further promoted to sergeant in January 1917.
Vickery was originally reported killed in action on May 11th, 1917. However, a field postcard received by his next of kin stated he was well and on duty. He was therefore returned to regimental duty.
Vickery was killed in action on April 9, 1917, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. He was killed while leading men during the consolidation of objectives; his body was recovered and buried in Zivy Crater Cemetery, Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France (Plot I, Row B, Grave 4). He was 22 years old and is commemorated on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial and the 18th Battalion Honour Roll.
The 18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF, fought as part of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917. Their role was to advance behind the leading battalions, consolidating captured ground and pushing toward the second and third German trench lines near Thelus. Facing heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, they supported the continued drive after the initial assault and helped secure strongpoints, contributing to the overall success of the Canadian Corps in taking the ridge.
Source: eMedals via post by Quentin de Givenchy
http://regimentalrogue.com/swont_memorial_book/swont_mem_book_060.html
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 