Kenora Great War Project

 

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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.

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Angood, Ernest Frederick

Ernest, his mother Harriet (seated) and new wife Florence, likely taken in 1918 Ernest Frederick Angood, son of Frederick Angood (1844) and Harriet Boyden (1847), was born in Chatteris, Cambridge, England on 15th October 1889. He had several siblings, including George (1869-1951), Louisa (1877-1963) who immigrated to Australia, sister Mabel (1886, married last name Rae)… Read More »

Bunn, Charles Robert Randolph

Charles Robert Randolph Bunn was the eldest son of John Robert Bunn and Vashti Elizabeth Gunne.  He was born 11 October 1886 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  His siblings included Victor (born 1890), Thomas (born 1892), Marguerite (born 1893) and John (born 1895). Charles’ father, John, had been an employee of the Hudson Bay Company serving as… Read More »

Drysdale, Alexander Abel

Alexander Abel Drysdale was born on 20 November 1893 in London, England. He was the youngest son of Henry Watt Drysdale and Alice Amanda Ward. His siblings included: Henry (1889-1991), James (1891-1982), Dorothy (1892-1979), Eileen (b. 1898) and Edith Marjorie (1901-1989). In the fall of 1906, Alex’s father, Henry, immigrated to Canada and took up… Read More »

Jones, Walter Malcolm

Private Walter Malcolm Jones enlisted in Winnipeg in July 1915 and served in France with the 78th Battalion. He was wounded at the Vimy front in January 1917 and invalided back to Canada about a year later. Walter was one of six sons of Anson Jones and Sarah Halliday Armstrong of Mount Albert, Ontario. Anson… Read More »

Dumma, William Silver

William Silver Dumma was born to William Dumma and Janet (Silver) Dumma on December 20th, 1880 in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.  His father William Senior was listed as a Superintendent of Housing in Edinburgh in 1881. There were seven children, including: Margaret (1866-71); Helen Hay (1867-1852); James (1868-1953, came to Canada in 1894, worked… Read More »

MacLeod, William George

Private William George MacLeod was born in Canada and living in Scotland when the war started. He served in the British Army with the Seaforth Highlanders and died of wounds in June 1917. His father and all three of his brother also served in the war. William was the son of Duncan McLeod and Mary… Read More »

Meikle, Ivie

Ivie Meikle was born on 31 October 1885 in Catrine, Ayrshire, Scotland. A village on the River Ayr, Catrine was constructed around one of the first cotton mills (1787)  in Scotland that was enlarged in 1823 by adding a bleaching works. Ivie was the son of Thomas Meikle and Elizabeth Garvan who had married on… Read More »

Huppe, Edmond

Joseph Edmond (Ed) Huppe (Hupé) was born on 24 December 1893, birth registered in the RM of La Broquerie in eastern Manitoba. His parents Joseph Huppe and Virginie Charron-Ducharme had married on 26 November 1892 in La Broquerie. The family farmed in the La Broquerie/Saint Anne area before moving to the Woodridge area in southeastern… Read More »

Dentry, William John

Private William John Dentry enlisted early in the war and served overseas for four and a half years. He returned to Canada in May 1919 with a war bride. William was born on 13 April 1894 in Fulham, London, England, the oldest son of Albert Isaac Dentrey (Dentry) and Eliza Moore. Albert was also born… Read More »

Frood, Andrew

Andrew William Frood was the eighth of eleven children born to Andrew Forrest Frood and Isabella Forrest on the 12th of July 1973 in Renfrew, Renfrew County Ontario. In 1891 (age 18) he was still living in Renfrew with his brother Samuel.   His occupation was listed as blacksmith. In 1900 (age 27) Andrew was… Read More »