These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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With his birth registered during the 1st quarter of 1891 in Exeter, Devonshire in England, Mancel Clark was likely born on 18 February 1891. His parents James Clark and Emily Bowden were both from Exeter, marrying during the 3rd quarter of 1888. The 1891 census found the family living in Exeter where James was working… Read More »
Birth date and location: James Percy Williams was born January 24, 1890 in Fort Frances, Ontario to Jabez Williams (born July 29, 1858, New Buckingham, Norfolk, England) and Annie (born May 15, 1862 christened in July at St. Andrew, Manitoba). Annie’s maiden name was MacKenzie. The Williams family research has traced ‘Percy’s’ maternal Cree and… Read More »
Douglas Burchall was born on 7 October 1891 in Bredbury, Cheshire, England. His parents were William James and Margaret (née Ballantyne) Burchall who had married during the last quarter of 1873 in Ashton under Lyne, Cheshire. By the 1901 England census the family was living in Bredbury, Cheshire, occupation of William listed as a teacher… Read More »
Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts Charles Elzear Asham, the son of James Asham and Christine Kennedy, was born on 25 November 1881 on the St Peter’s Reserve in southern Manitoba. At the time of the 1891 census the family was living in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario… Read More »
Lieutenant Ernest John Clarke served in the militia before the war then enlisted in July 1916 and went to France with the 50th Battalion. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He served again in the Second World War with the Veterans Guard of Canada. Ernest was the son of James Herbert Clarke and Rose… Read More »
Private Fred Gray enlisted with the 101st Battalion in January 1916 and served overseas for three years in England, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in March 1919. Fred was the son of Fred (Sr.) and Elizabeth Gray of Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England. Peterborough was an industrial city on the main rail line between London… Read More »
According to his service file Sapper Aldo Clark was the son of John and Florence Clark of Ravenna, Buffalo County, Nebraska. He was born in Nebraska but living and working in Kenora, Ontario when conscription started in the fall of 1917. He was called up for service in November 1917 in Winnipeg and assigned to… Read More »
Private John Walford Johnson enlisted in March 1916 and served in France and Belgium with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was invalided back to Canada in October 1918 due to illness. John was born on 26 June 1894 in Norman, Ontario. His parents, Sven John Johnson and Josephine Carlson, both immigrated to Canada in… Read More »
John Arthur Webb was born on 10 December 1890 in Stafford, Staffordshire in England. His parents Charles Henry Webb and Ann Lea were from Wolverhampton in Staffordshire where they married on 16 November 1881. Children born to the couple in Wolverhampton were Jane Elizabeth (1882) and Charles Henry (1885). By the time of the birth… Read More »
Born 30 November 1877, William Anderson McKie was the second child of nine born to William McKie and Agnes Hill of Girvan, Scotland. His parents were married in December 1875 in Girvan, Ayrshire, a coastal village in southwestern Scotland. He had an older brother, James. William’s younger siblings were Samuel, Mary, John, Alexander, David, Elizabeth… Read More »