Source: News clipping about the 186th Battalion Reunion.
Family Search: When Corporal Frederick Russell Burnie was born on 19 January 1893, in Dresden, Camden, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Henry Burnie, was 39 and his mother, Catherine Elizabeth Keech, was 34. He married Ethel Maud Mccubbin on 9 July 1919, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as clerk in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1987, at the age of 94, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
May have been wounded by same shell as my grandfather. “Wounded by enemy shell bursting in billet.”
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 