Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Brother to Private Herbert Lockwood Peer, reg. no. 54042.
Family Search: When Private George Wellington Oswell Peer was born on 3 June 1882, in Maryhill, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Stephen Edward Peer, was 31 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Vollick, was 21. He married Teresa Cecilia Stahlbaum on 13 February 1904, in Wellington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Wellington, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 32, his occupation is listed as moulder. He died on 15 September 1954, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 