Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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MacGillivray, Grant

Private Grant MacGillivray arrived in France in March 1917 and served with the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders). He died of wounds a month later during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. James Alexander Farquhar Grant MacGillivray, known as Grant, was born on 10 May 1880 in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents, Farquhar MacGillivray and Jane Mary MacFarlane,… Read More »

Charest, Peter

Isaie Peter Charest was the son of Isaie Charest and Emilie Bedard. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec on October 16, 1878. Peter’s mother died in 1886 when he was just 8 years old. Peter’s father, left with several small children, married Marie LaRoche on February 21, 1887 in Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec. At some point, Peter… Read More »

Tanner, Walter Charles

Walter Charles Tanner was born on 1 October 1890 in South Wigston, Leicestershire, England. His father John George Tanner was from Filton on the outskirts of Bristol in Gloucestershire while his mother Rose Louisa Stokes was from Isham, Wellingborough in Northamptonshire where the couple had married in 1889. John was a railway goods guard while… Read More »

Wright, Edward Lewis

Edward Lewis Wright was born on 25 November 1890 in Ilford, Essex on the outskirts of London, England. His father William Edward Wright, a gardener, was born in 1865 in High Ingar, Essex and had married his first wife Sarah Jenkins during the 1st quarter of 1883 in the registration district of Chelmsford, Essex where… Read More »

Dempster, Andrew

Andrew Dempster was one of four brothers, the sons of John and Catherine Dempster, to volunteer for service during the war. He had been born on 08 August 1887 in Stirling, Scotland. The family included John (1861) and Catherine (1861); sons William (1894), Thomas (1887), his twin brother Andrew (1887); Daniel (1888); John (1896) and… Read More »

Cameron, Leslie Fergus

Lieutenant Leslie Fergus Cameron enlisted in December 1914 and went overseas with the 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders). He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917 and served as a Flight Officer (Observer). Leslie was born on 7 July 1896 in the town of Rat Portage in northwestern Ontario. His birth was registered as… Read More »

Evans, Stanley Ernest Stroud

Stanley Ernest Stroud was born on 29 May 1897 in the Peckham area of London, England. In later life he went by the name of Stanley Ernest Stroud Evans. His mother Mary Elizabeth Stroud was born in 1864 in Margate in Kent, the daughter of William Stroud, a butcher journeyman, and Elizabeth Feakins. At the… Read More »

Komatich, Nick

Private First Class Nick (Nicholas) Komatich was born in St. Anthony, Stearns County, Minnesota on 4 February 1881. He grew up in Stearns County and by the time he was 14 he was working away from home as a farm labourer. He immigrated to Canada in 1911, at age 30, and settled in the town… Read More »

Maki, Alexander

Alexander Maki was living in Kenora, Ontario when he enlisted on 17 July 1916. According to his attestation paper he was single, born on 25 February 1880 in Wasa, Finland and he had served with the Finnish armed forces for three and a half years before immigrating to Canada. He was employed as a railroad… Read More »

Welsby, George Henry

Major George Henry Welsby served in the Permanent Active Militia for several years before the war started. During the war he was Paymaster for District No. 10, a position he held until February 1918. George was born on 6 October 1882 in Liverpool, England and baptized three months later at St. Paul Church in Princes… Read More »