Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Hughes, James

Acting Corporal James Hughes was married and the father of three young daughters when he enlisted in 1915. He was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and he served in Great Britain for the rest of the war, returning to Canada in July 1919. James was born in Duntocher, Dunbartonshire, Scotland… Read More »

Hucker, Thomas John Senior

Thomas was born in Okehampton, Devon, England.  His attestation papers gave his birth date as 18 October 1874, however other documents suggest the year of birth could be from 1869 to 1874 and the documents in his service file have May as the month of his birth. Thomas married Elizabeth Ann Evans on 24 December… Read More »

Steinke, Daniel Ernest

Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts Daniel Ernest Steinke was born on 1 January 1896 in Sandstone, Minnesota. He was the son of Julius Steinke and Justina Pitt, both likely from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. The couple, along with infant son Carl August who was born in 1889 in Hamburg, immigrated to… Read More »

Burriss, Robert Benton

Robert Benton Burriss was born on 24 October 1894 in Bowmanville, Durham, Ontario as supported by his Ontario birth record (Archives of Ontario, MS929, Reel #127). His father Rufus Allan Burriss was from Lewis County in Kentucky while his mother Hester Ann Watts was from near Flemingsburg in Kentucky. The couple married in January of… Read More »

Campbell, Kenneth Thomas

Date and Location of birth: Kenneth was born May 20, 1896, Rat Portage, Ontario. There is a written note on the bottom of the registration document that states the birth was also ‘declared’ in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan by E. Campbell. Name of parents: His father is William Campbell, born July 1868 in Restigouche, New Brunswick…. Read More »

McPhail, Malcolm Nathaniel

Lieutenant Malcolm Nathaniel McPhail signed up with the 52nd Battalion in May 1915 and served for almost four years in England, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in August 1919. Malcolm was the oldest son of Lachlan Lamont McPhail (MacPhail) and Mary McIntyre of Kenora, Ontario. Lachlan and Mary were both born in southern… Read More »

Fraser, Millard

Millard Andrew Fraser was born on 18 August 1892 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents, Hugh Fraser (1849-1934) and Isabella Margaret MacLeod (1862-1944) were from Campbellton, New Brunswick where they married in 1883. The family spent time in Quebec where three children, Margaret (1884- 1958), Mary (1886-1971) and James (1887-1898) were born. By 1890 they were… Read More »

Ringrose, Herbert

Herbert Ringrose was born on 20 December 1896 in Beverley, Yorkshire in England. His father John William Ringrose was from Beverley while his mother Emily Camelia Hickford was from Edmonton in Middlesex, with the couple marrying during the first quarter of 1900 in the registration district of Beverley. John worked as a tanners labourer, likely… Read More »

Giguere, Edmond

Birth date and location: Edmond Giguere was born in the RM of Cartier, Manitoba, on October 8, 1887, forenames given as Joseph Narcisse on the Manitoba birth record. His parents, Narcisse and Elzir, both of whom had been born in Quebec, moved their family to Manitoba about 1883 or 1884. Until that time, Narcisse had… Read More »

Armour, Thomas

Lance Corporal Thomas Armour enlisted in February 1915 and served overseas for almost four years. His wife and baby daughter moved to Scotland during the war and they all returned to Canada in March 1919. Thomas was born on 23 November 1891 in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland. His parents, Thomas Armour Sr. and Jane Kennedy, were… Read More »