Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Curtis, Howard Winfred

Private Howard Winfred Curtis enlisted in February 1916 and served in France with the 8th Battalion. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and died in November 1916. Howard was the youngest son of Susan Tomlin and Charles William Curtis. Charles was born in Manitoba and grew up in Portage la Prairie. When… Read More »

Boyes, Henry George William

Henry George William (Harry) Boyes was born on 24 March 1896 in Sundridge, Ontario. His father Richard Edward Boyes’ family first farmed in the Tossorontio area of South Simcoe in Ontario before moving to the Joly and Strong and Chapman subdistricts in the Muskoka area, also to farm. His mother Orinda Parney Benton Lowden was… Read More »

McLeod, John Murdo

John Murdo McLeod was the son of Duncan McLeod and Mary (Maisy) Munro, both born in Scotland. They immigrated in the 1880s and settled in Keewatin. Duncan’s employment was as a labourer, lumberman and carpenter. They had seven children: John (1888), Maggie Christa (1890), Alexander Stewart (1892), Annie Munro/Eunice (1893), William (1895), Duncan (1897), and… 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 »

MacKay, John Hector

John Hector MacKay was born on 8 August 1880 in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England. His father John Hector MacKay was from Scotland and by the time of the 1871 census was boarding in the Samuel and Ann (née Watt) Neish household in Everton, Liverpool, occupation listed as engine driver. On 16 October 1975 in Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool,… Read More »

Mitchell, William

William Mitchell  was born  08 August 1885 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were George Mitchell and Margaret Begg. He had four sisters – Jessie Catherine (b. 1873, m. John Duncan McKenzie), Florence (b. 1877, m. Wilkie James Brown), Minota (b. 1883, m. Edwin Stone) and Marian (b. 1887, m. George Carmichael Cooke). William… Read More »

Percy, James Howard

During the First World War about 3,800 Canadian soldiers became German prisoners of war. Lance Corporal James Howard Percy was sent to France in May 1916 and he was taken as a prisoner of war on 3 May 1917. He died a few days later in a German hospital. Howard was the oldest son of… Read More »

Gork, Frank

Private Frank Gork was born on 17 April 1895 in Buffalo, New York, the son of German immigrants John Gork and Annie Levandoski. He had two older brothers, Charlie (1890) and Joseph (1893). The family moved to Canada around 1898, John first followed later by his wife and children. They farmed in the RM of… Read More »

Beaudro, Silas Alexander

Gunner Silas Alexander Beaudro of Kenora, Ontario was called up in February 1918. He served in Canada for ten months with the Canadian Field Artillery. Silas was the youngest son of Joseph Henry Beaudro (Beaudrault) and Sarah Leger. Joseph was born in Sorel, Quebec and moved to Minnesota with his family as a child. His… Read More »