Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Son, W.O. No. 2 John Joseph Reansbury missing in action over Germany.
Family Search: When Private Hugh Reansbury was born on 27 May 1881, in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Reansbury, was 31 and his mother, Mary Jane Smith, was 32. He had at least 6 sons and 2 daughters with Mrs. Winifred Margaret Fletcher. He immigrated to Canada in 1906 and lived in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1931, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as watchman in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 May 1952, at the age of 70, and was buried in Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 