Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Corporal Robert George Smith was born on 23 November 1888, in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert G. Smith, was 46 and his mother, Mary McLean, was 47. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1925, his occupation was listed as a railway detective in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 14 January 1953, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 