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

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Dillon, Artemus Robert

Private Artemus Robert Dillon was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 28 February 1874. His parents were William Dillon and Elizabeth Hoben and he was one of at least nine children. William and Elizabeth were married on Prince Edward Island in 1870. In 1873 the colony of Prince Edward Island became a Canadian province…. Read More »

Proudlock, Duncan McDougall

Duncan MacDougall Proudlock was born on 5 May 1892 in the Township of Litchfield, Pontiac, Quebec, today known as Campbell’s Bay. His father farmer Thomas Proudlock, born in about 1837, had first been married to Mary Moorhead. The couple gave birth to three children, Harral Hamilton, Annie, and Margaret Jane before Mary passed away. According… Read More »

Jorgenson, Jacob

Private Jacob Jorgenson was the oldest of five brothers who enlisted for service in the First World War. The five boys – Jacob, Martin, John,  Gustave and Thomas – came from a large family in Whitemouth, Manitoba. Martin was killed in France in June 1917 but the other four brothers survived and returned home after… Read More »

Noble, Brook

Sapper Brook Noble enlisted in February 1916 at age 41 and served for three years in Canada, England and France. Brook was the son of George and Harriett Noble of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. He was born in Lindley, Huddersfield on 21 August 1874 and he had at least two sisters and four brothers: John,… Read More »

Locking, Albert William

The son of Annie Adelaide Jones, Albert William Dunham Jones was born on 28 January 1889 in North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, England. At the time of his birth his mother was working as a domestic servant. By the 1891 England census, Annie and Albert were listed as visitors with the William and Caroline Humberstone family in… Read More »

Hill, Harkey Merlin

Harkey Merlin Hill was born December 19, 1887 in Brigden, Lambton County, Ontario to John James Hill and Anna Bella Doman. His father had been born in Ontario on January 28, 1854 to Ireland-born parents and his mother in Ireland in 1860. Harkey Hill’s father was a cooper (barrel maker) by trade and in the… Read More »

Cripps, Arthur Charles

Sapper Arthur Charles Cripps enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years. Arthur was the only son of Arthur Cripps (Sr.) and Maria Moore of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. His father had grown up in Gloucestershire and his mother was from Somerset. They were married in 1889… Read More »

James, Ernest Walter

Ernest Walter James was born on 08 January 1891 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England.  He was the third son of blacksmith, Noah James and Augusta ELLEN Elliott.  His siblings included Nellie ‘Ellen’ (b. 1887), Henry Edward (b. 1888), Arthur Frederick (b. 1889), Reginald Wilfred (b. 1896), Margaret May (b. 1897) and Winifred Maud (b. 1903). Ernest… Read More »

Metail, Auguste Dieudonnais

Auguste Dieudonnais Metail was born on 24 September 1894 in Saint-Jeures, Haute-Loire, France. His father Joseph Metail was also from Saint-Jeures while his mother Anne Charlotte Crepet was from nearby Chambon-Feugerolles, Loire where the couple married on 30 October 1893. The young family immigrated to Canada in 1895, arriving in New York aboard the Maasdam… Read More »