Source: Court martial record. Confirmed.
Family Search: When Private Clifford Baines Smith was born on 2 November 1895, in Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ernest John SMITH, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann BAINES, was 25. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1938 and lived in Hastings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 20, his occupation was listed as farmer. He died on 13 February 1970, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 74.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 