Source: Per record of promotion of Corporal Fred Fairthorne, reg. no. 409229.
Family Search: When Corporal Robert Harold McConkey was born on 20 July 1888, in Priceville, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert John Conkey, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann Stewart, was 30. He married Anna M. Mullen on 22 August 1921, in Priceville, Ludlow, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Artemesia Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1934, at the age of 46, his occupation is listed as post master in Priceville, Grey, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 March 1953, in Markdale, Grey, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in McNeil Cemetery-Priceville, Grey Highlands, Grey, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 