Source: Via Mark Carmichael Excel spreadsheet dated September 2025 re. soldiers of the 116th Battalion that served with the 18th.
Family Search: When Private Charles Russell Barnard was born on 6 January 1899, in Derby Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Emmanuel Barnard, was 39 and his mother, Esther Jane McClean, was 33. He married Greta Marie Emma Shaw on 8 June 1921, in York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as student in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 August 1925, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
Private Charles Russell Barnard. Regimental Number 409082.
This soldier joined underage. Stating he was born on 6 January 1895 at Owen Sound, his service file has a Return of Birth document showing he was, in fact, born on 6 January 1899 in Grey County. This document verifying his true age made him underage and ineligible for combat.
He joined the 37th Battalion at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario (Niagara Camp) on 11 June 1915. He showed is trade or calling as a student and was assessed the apparent age of 20 years old. He was 4 years younger.
He, along with the rest of the 37th Battalion, arrived in England aboard the SS Lapland on 11 December 1915. He was transferred to the 12th Reserve Battalion at Shorncliffe on 15 March 1916 and two months later transferred to the 18th Battalion for active combat duty.
It was discovered he was a minor some time around Arpil 1917, and he was under consideration for a discharge but they posted him to the Canadian Machine Gun Depot for training and to await his majority.
He was then assigned to the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps on 11 June 1918 and joined that unit in the field on 13 June 1918.
He served with this unit until wounded a second time on 28 August 1918 and was evacuated to hospital for treatment for a GSW to the leg, head and arm, returning on 26 October 1918.
On 15 August 1919, he was medically boarded at St. Andrews Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, with tuberculosis of a moderate nature that was “becoming quiescent”.
He was demobilized due to being medically unfit on 30 August 1919, at Toronto, Ontario.
Sadly, the tuberculosis returned, and it appears he moved with his wife to California, where the son was born, and then to Arizona, where he died from this disease.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 