Source: Per record of promotion in Duncan, Robert, reg. no. 174548 service file.
Family Search: When Sergeant Roy Sherman Belfry was born on 24 April 1893, in Tay, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, his father, Prince Sherman Belfry, was 30 and his mother, Esther Ellen Ney, was 21. He married Lulu Ann Taylor on 25 October 1922, in Midland, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as electric light lineman in Victoria Harbour, Tay, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. He died on 6 January 1961, in Victoria Harbour, Tay, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 67, and was buried in Victoria Harbour Union Cemetery, Victoria Harbour, Tay, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 