Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Nathan Alexander Oman Smith was born on 25 March 1890, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, Nathan C Smith, was 36 and his mother, Emily Isabella Oman, was 22. He married Barbara H Bottomley on 8 October 1917, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as machinist. He died in August 1960, at the age of 70, and was buried in Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 