Digitized Service Record is not available this date. An email inquiry as to its availability was made December 29, 2015 and on May 10, 2017. Another was made on June 19, 2022.
Source: Found during a London Gazette for another soldier. Mentioned on “Duty Nobly Done” on page 295.
Family Search: When Lieutenant John Henry Barkley was born on 9 October 1890, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Simon Edmund Barkley, was 31 and his mother, Rosa B. Bell, was 27. He had at least 1 daughter with Elsie Salome Feick. He lived in Chatham, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1927, at the age of 37, his occupation is listed as bank clerk, bank of montreal in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 October 1973, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
Lt. John Henry Barkley, 18th Bn., Can. Infy., Western Ont. Regt.
For conspicuous gallantry and initiative. During an attack, owing to the fog, his platoon became scattered, but he advanced, and finding a gap in the line, gathered together all the men he could find and placed them in the gap. He carried on with this improvised platoon, keeping his company in touch with the flank. He led this platoon to attach and capture a machine-gun nest, which otherwise would have enfiladed his company. His quickness and resource made it possible for the company to continue its advance.
Military Cross Citation – The London Gazette Publication date: 10 January 1919 Supplement: 31119 Page: 652
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 