Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Find-A-Grave
Family Search: Private Fred Barrett was born on 9 April 1892, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom as the son of James Barrett Barrett. He married Lillie Willoughby on 21 November 1918, in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1922. In 1914, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as assembler.
Military Medal per London Gazette No. 31142. 24 January 1919.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 