Originally from the 76th Overseas Battalion: Major Rene Raoul Barber, Corps of Guides, Junior Major, from Georgetown, TOS 18 January 1916, transferred to the 18th Battalion, served in France.
Family Search: When Rene Raoul Barber was born on 8 December 1879, in Georgetown, Halton, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, John Roaf Barber, was 38 and his mother, Mary Barclay, was 28. He married Alma Edna Augusta Pearl Parsons on 19 April 1905, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Georgetown, Halton, Ontario, Canada for about 34 years and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 36, his occupation is listed as manurfacturer in Georgetown, Halton, Ontario, Canada. He died on 8 October 1934, in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 54, and was buried in St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Rusper, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 