Source: 116th Excel sheet by Mark Carmichael re. soldiers of 116th that served with the 18th Battalion.
Find-A-Grave
Family Search: When Robert Elson Swansborough was born on 13 May 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England, his father, Rufus Thomas Swansborough, was 53 and his mother, Jane Novell, was 46. He married Marjorie F Hunter in 1934, in Sussex, England. He lived in Uxbridge Township, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as farm labourer in Uxbridge Township, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. He died on 9 March 1977, in Ashford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82.
Military Medal
| Reg number | 745172 |
| Name | Swansborough, Robert |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Year of Birth | 3/8/1905 |
| Date of Death | |
| Cemetery | |
| Cemetery location | |
| Country of birth | England |
| Home Country | Canada |
| City born | Godalming, Surrey, England |
| Address | Sanford, ON |
| Enlistment Date | 12/11/1915 |
| Drafted? | |
| Enlistment place | Uxbridge |
| Origin Unit | 116th Battalion |
| Pre war Unit | |
| Final Bn | 18th |
| Ship | SS Olympic |
| Date in England | 7/31/1916 |
| Date in France | |
| Date w 116 | 12/11/1915 |
| Left 116th | 12/29/1916 |
| Married | no |
| Occupation | farm labourer |
| Wounded date | |
| Wound type/Death particuolars | |
| KIA | |
| DOW | |
| Died other | |
| Missing/Presumed Dead | |
| Wounded | |
| Sick | |
| PTSD | |
| Medals | Military Medal (Sept 30,1918) |
| Vimy | |
| Vimy area | |
| Raid | |
| Hill 70 | |
| Pass | |
| Amiens | |
| Parvillers | |
| Boiry | |
| Canal | |
| Other | |
| Unit History | 116th to 18th |
| Other details | A Coy – promoted to Corporal to Sergeant |
| Field Punishment | |
| FP Details | |
| Gravestone | |
| Underage | |
| Medically Unit | |
| Deserter | |
| Undesirable | |
| Casualty Description |
War Diary of the 18th Battalion CEF 