Source: 153rd Battalion web site, 30th Regiment.
Family Search: When Private Herbert Lockwood Peer was born on 23 April 1886, in Halton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Stephen Edward Peer, was 35 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Vollick, was 25. He married Margaret S. McMaster on 4 November 1912, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. 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 28, his occupation is listed as polisher. He died on 23 October 1936, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Woodlawn MemorialPark, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to George Wellington Peer, reg. no. 54043.
“Trade listed as Polisher. DOB 23-4-86, born Halton, Ontario. NOK Mrs. H.L. Peer, married 4-11-12. Enlisted 18th Guelph 26-10-14, lists service in Militia (30th). Went overseas with 18th Battalion aboard SS Grampian 18-4-15, Halifax, N.S. To France with 18th Battalion 15-9-15. Returned to Canada for Discharge aboard SS Caronia, Halifax N.S. 22-5-19. Demobilized London 24-5-19. Appears on the 1921 Census for Guelph, Herbert and Margaret Peer, 48 Elizabeth St. Guelph.
Veterans Death Card: died 23-10-36, no cause given, not war service related. NOK Margaret (McMaster) Peer, widow, Guelph. Buried from his home 23 Oliver St. Guelph. Interred Woodlawn Cemetery, Guelph. Gravesite photo courtesy B. Gilbert.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 7699 – 39, courtesy Library & Archives Canada.”
Fri, Oct 23, 1936 ·Page 36.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 