Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Dickinson, Thomas

Lieutenant Thomas Dickinson was commissioned as an officer in the 94th Battalion and served in France with a machine gun unit. He was wounded in May 1917 and invalided back to Canada later that year. Thomas was the oldest son of James Dickinson (Dickenson) and Alice Pendlebury. James was a publisher, editor and journalist. He… Read More »

Birbeck, Thomas Edson

Thomas Edson Birbeck was born on 15 November 1896 in Port Stanley, Ontario. According to William Shurtleff’s Shurtleff and Lawton Families: Genealogy and History and other sources, Thomas’ father Thomas Edson Birbeck was born in 1865 in Leeds, Yorkshire in England. At a young age he ran away from home and went to sea, later… Read More »

Heath, George

Private George Heath was about 50 years old when he enlisted in August 1915. He served for 15 months in Canada and England before getting discharged due to being overage and medically unfit for war service. George was born in Portland, Leeds County, Ontario, the son of Ebenezer Heath, a cooper, and Maria Shaver. Ebenezer… Read More »

Panton, Leonard Arthur Cattanach

Dr. Leonard Arthur Cattanach Panton served from June 1915 to September 1919 with the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was wounded at Gallipoli and after recovering he went on to serve in Canada, Great Britain and China. Leonard was the son of James Hoyes Panton and Mary Jemima Drummond… Read More »

Plante, Alphonse Joseph

Alphonse Joseph Plante was born on 24 October 1897 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA. His parents Eusebe Plante and Agnes Racine were from the Louiseville/Sainte Alexis de Monts area in Quebec, marrying in Sainte Ursule on 30 January 1870. Children born to the couple where they farmed were Charles Edouard (1870-1950), Joseph Herminigilde (1872-1925), Joseph Clovis… Read More »

Cardinal, Medore

Private Medore Cardinal was 40 years old, married and the father of eight children when he enlisted in March 1917. He served in England and France for fourteen months, returning to Canada due to illness in June 1918. Medore was the oldest son of Medore Cardinal and Mathilde Richer of Pain Court, Kent County, Ontario…. Read More »

Veitch, Robert

The first born child of James and Agnes (née Kirkpatrick) Veitch, Robert (Bob) Veitch was born on 10 March 1895 in West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland. Also born in West Linton, his father was a stone mason by trade. His mother was from Kirkbean, Dumphriesshire. Other children born to the family were May Elizabeth (1900) and… Read More »

Armstrong, Robert Wiggins

Acting Lance Sergeant Robert Wiggins Armstrong enlisted in January 1916 and served for three years in Canada, Great Britain and France. He was wounded in June 1917 and returned to Canada in December 1918. Robert was the son of James Arthur Armstrong and Annie Webb of Woolchester, Alberta. James was born in Belleville, Ontario to… Read More »

Walters, Henry

Private Henry Walters enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in November 1915, at age 17, and served for three years in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. Henry was born on 9 September 1898 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His parents, Frederick Walters and Emily Golding, were married in Birmingham in 1895 and their first six children were… Read More »

Tapp, Walter

Likely born a day or two earlier, William Wilfred (Walter) Tapp was baptized on 30 May 1894 in Rivière au Renard (Fox River), Gaspé, Quebec, the village now amalgamated with the town of Gaspé. Both from the area, his parents Jean Baptiste Tapp and Berenice Bond had married on 6 November 1876 in Rivière au… Read More »