Private Robert Lormer Craig McClure was born in Norval, Ontario on January 5th, 1896 to John & Sarah McClure. He attended Huttonville Public School and  was a lifelong member of Norval Presbyterian Church. Unlike most of the other men on the Churchville Memorial plaques, Private McClure was drafted on May 9th 1918 under the Military Service Act of 1917.  According to his service file, Robert’s year of military service was remarkably uneventful. There are no hospital records, no transfers, nothing of note at all (source: Library & Archives Canada). He was discharged back to Norval at the end of the war and continued working and living on his family farm on Mississauga Road (now near William’s Parkway, where the Huttonville Cemetery is). 

            At home Private McClure joined the Huttonville Orange Lodge, became a Church Elder at Norval Presbyterian, and joined Ionic Lodge No. 229 GRC in downtown Brampton. He married Esther Giffen on May 17th, 1922 and went on to have two sons and two daughters, as well as 15 grandchildren (source: The Georgetown Herald, March 30, 1967). McClure died on March 11th, 1967 at the age of 71 at Peel Memorial Hospital in Brampton (source: findagrave.com).