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

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Fuller, Charles Herbert

The only son and first born child of Charles Robert  and Beatrice (Litten) Fuller, Charles Herbert Fuller was on born 15 August 1894 in Reading, Berkshire, England, registration district of Bradfield. His father was from Wantage, Berkshire while his mother was from Charleton, Oxfordshire. The couple had married during the first quarter of 1894 in the… Read More »

Godin, Richard

Sergeant Richard Godin enlisted in September 1915, at age 44, and served in France and Belgium with the Canadian Engineers. After getting discharged due to his age he re-enlisted with a forestry unit and served overseas for another two years. Richard was the oldest son of Vital Godin and Marie Paulin of Caraquet, Gloucester County,… Read More »

Wilson, Victor Stilwell

Their first born child, Victor Stilwell (also spelled Stillwell, Stewell) Wilson was born on 17 March 1888, birth registered in the Township of Pickering. His father Thomas Fawcett Wilson had been born in Green River, Pickering  while his mother Annie Elizabeth Spence was from nearby Cedar Grove. The couple married on 2 June 1886 in… Read More »

Scott, Robert Brown

Robert Brown Scott was born on 8 February 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Robert Scott was from Biggar, Lanarkshire while his mother Jessie Cleghorn was from Glasgow. The couple married on 23 June 1868 in Glasgow. The 1871 Scotland census placed the family in Edinburgh where Robert Sr was working as a railway clerk…. Read More »

Ashton, Milton Ernest

Milton Ernest Ashton was born on 25 January 1894 in Tuckersmith, Huron County, Ontario. His father William John Ashton was from the district of Holsworthy, Devonshire, England and had immigrated to Canada with his mother, stepfather, and some step-siblings before the 1881 Canada census where they were found living in Usborne, Huron. Milton’s mother Sarah… Read More »

Ross, George Graham

Flight Second Lieutenant George Graham Ross joined the Royal Flying Corps in November 1917 and served in Canada and the UK for 16 months, returning home in March 1919. George was the oldest son of Walter Inkermann Ross and Grace Graham. Walter was born in Quebec and moved to Michigan with his family as a… Read More »

Hallett, Clarence Beamish

Although he gave Truro, Nova Scotia as his birth place, Clarence Beamish Hallett was born on 21 June 1886 in a small community just outside of Truro called Brookside. His father William Courtney Hallett was from Sussex, New Brunswick while his mother Florence Emma Cox was from Falmouth, Nova Scotia. The couple married on 5… Read More »

Gascoigne, Percival

Sapper Percival Gascoigne enlisted in May 1915, at age 19, and served in Canada and the UK for three years. He suffered from ill health for much of that time and he was invalided back to Canada in March 1918. Percival was the youngest son of Herbert Gascoigne and Elizabeth Neale of Kemble, Gloucestershire, England…. Read More »

Gordon, Marshall Vinton

Marshall Vinton Gordon was born on 16 June 1885 in Thessalon, Ontario. He was the son of John Gordon and Mary Willan, the couple marrying in 1880. Marshall had an older sister, Cecilia Mildred (b 1884) and a younger sister Pearl Irene who only lived for a few months in 1887. Sadly Mary passed away… Read More »