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

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English, Clarence Robert

Clarence Robert Marian English was born on 08 July 1894 in Somerset, England. His father, Theodore Hewitt English worked as florist, nurseryman, horticultural commission agent and horticultural auctioneer. Theodore had married in 1884. His wife’s name was Pattie (1891 census) or Martha (probate records). Other children of this couple included: Ellen Vera (b. 1887), Theodore… 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 »

Fraser, Gordon Edwin

Lance Corporal Gordon Edwin Fraser enlisted with the 29th Battalion in November 1914, three months after the war started. He was seriously wounded at the Vimy front in 1917 and invalided back to Canada later that same year. Gordon was the oldest son of Andrew Fraser and Frances Elizabeth Fennell of Vancouver, British Columbia. Frances… Read More »

Squire, Job

Although a birth record would be needed to confirm, by most accounts Job Squire was born on 4 February 1880 in Short Heath in the registration district of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire in England. Short Heath is presently a small urban residential area north of the town of Willenhall, nestled in between the urban villages of New… Read More »

Simister, Richard

Birth date and location: According to Richard’s Attestation Paper, he was born December 31, 1972 in Liverpool, England. His actual birth date, however, was December 31, 1865. His parents were John Simister and Sarah Edge. Richard was baptized at St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool on February 11, 1866. His father, John, was a Rope Maker and… Read More »

Gunn, James

James Gunn was born on 31 January 1887 in the district of St Andrew in Edinburgh, Scotland. Both of his parents were from Caithness in northern Scotland, his father Alexander Gunn from Watten and his mother Margaret Sutherland from Spitall Quarry, Wick. Alexander was working as a commercial traveller when the couple married on 5… Read More »

Murray, Alexander Leonard

Alexander Leonard (Leo) Murray was born on 14 May 1890 in Ignace in northwestern Ontario. He was the son of Alexander Morin and Leah Ross, the family surname eventually changed to Murray. Leo had an older brother Joseph Theodore and younger siblings Annie Rose and Arthur Joseph (Archie). It appears that his father died and… Read More »

Smith, Herbert Douglas Sinclair

Herbert Douglas Sinclair Smith was one of the over 4,000 Canadian fatal casualties of the Battle of Passchendaele Oct 27-Nov 12, 1917). Badly wounded during the battle, he later died in hospital in England. Born July 20, 1879/1878 in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario to William Taylor Smith and Margaret Matilda Carpenter, Herbert grew up… Read More »