Source: Per notice of wounding in the London Advertiser on page 5, dated January 21, 1916.
Family Search: Private Robert John Reeder, reg. no. 54313. This man enlisted with the 18th Battalion on 20 January 1915 at Windsor, Ontario. His attestation papers show him as a bricklayer, possibly working in the United States. HE arrived in England on 29 April 1915 and trained with the 18th Battalion at West Sandling Camp before this unit was shipped “overseas” with the 2nd Canadian Contingent. He was wounded (GSW to left face) on 5 January 1916 and returned to duty after treatment on 22 January 1916. He was granted an 8 day leave to England on 30 April 1916 and returned to suffer a pyrexia of unknown origin starting on 28 July 1916. Discharged for duty on 10 August 1916 he served until he was taken ill again on 28 December 1916 and returned for duty on 4 January 1917. Shortly after returning to the 18th he was stricken with myalgia for both ankles and it was assessed as severe. He was sent to England for treatment and never returned to active duty being sent to Canada on 18 October 1917. He was active in the Great War Veterans Association (the precursor to the Royal Canadian Legion) and was recognized for his service in 1919 being given a gold chain by the Ladies Auxiliary of the War Veterans Association in January 1919. He applied for US Citizenship on 25 July 1925 and showed him living at 73 Orchestra Place in Detroit, Michigan. Returning to England he appears to continued his trade as a bricklayer, possibly dying at a job site at Crouch End, according to a Daily Telegraph article published 5 January 1938.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 