Digitized Service Record
Source: Post of medal group at the 18th Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Private William Smith was born on 23 September 1889, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ebenezer Smith, was 44 and his mother, Ellen Copley, was 42. He married Louie Winifred Muncey on 3 April 1913. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in St Peter, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Brampton, Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as florist in Brampton, Peel, Ontario, Canada. He died on 7 May 1954, in Horsham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64, and was buried in Horsham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 