Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Gray, Robert Robertson

Sergeant Robert Robertson Gray was married and working as a florist when he enlisted in Winnipeg in December 1915. He served in Canada and the UK for two years and a half years. Robert was born in Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1901, arriving in April on the SS State… Read More »

Beaton, Daniel Percival

Daniel Percival (Percy) Beaton was born on 15 December 1897 in Keewatin, Ontario. He was the son of Dougald Beaton and Mary Anne (Annie) Carmody who had married in 1883 in Rat Portage (now known as Kenora). Percy’s father died in 1900. Percy’s siblings included:  Florence May (1885-1918) who married Cyril Leslie Galloway;  Sarah V…. Read More »

Crock, Stanley

Trooper Stanley Crock enlisted in May 1916, at age 17, and arrived in France that fall. He was killed in March 1918 at the Battle of St. Quentin when a large shell landed in the middle of his cavalry troop. Stanley (Stanislas) was the son of Firmin Cyr Crock and Bélona Caron of St. Boniface,… Read More »

Bunn, Thomas Drake

Thomas Drake Bunn was born on 24 February in Rat Portage (Kenora) Ontario.  His parents were John Robert Bunn and Vashti Elizabeth Gunne.  Siblings included Charles (born 1886), Victor (born 1890), Margaret (born 1893) and John (born 1895). Thomas’ father, John, had just rejoined the Hudson Bay Company and was serving as a clerk in… Read More »

Beaule, Adelard

Private Adelard (Edlora) Alfred Clovis Beaule enlisted in February 1916, five weeks before his 16th birthday. He served in France for three months before being discharged as a minor, and he arrived back in Canada in December 1916. Adelard was the oldest son of Clovis Beaule (Beaulé) and Marie Montgrand Cyr of Redditt, Ontario. He… Read More »

Roberts, George Hugh

George Hugh Roberts was born on 18 August 1892 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town just west of present day Kenora. His father Owen Ellis Roberts, born in 1858 in Bala, Merionethshire in Wales, immigrated to Canada in 1882, arriving in Quebec on 26 June on the Circassian. He settled in Winnipeg where he married… Read More »

Erzinger, Charles Salisbury

Charles Salisbury Erzinger was born on 30 December 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father John Erzinger was born in 1855 in Schaffausen, Switzerland and had immigrated to the United States at age 16 according to his obituary. After spending a couple of years in St Louis, Missouri and a short time in Chicago, he moved… Read More »

Jones, Edward

Birth date and location: According to his Attestation Papers, Edward was born February 25, 1882 in Kamloops, British Columbia. Names of parents and siblings: Cannot be confirmed at this time. Early life: Prior to enlisting, ‘Ed’ had been a Blacksmith and appears to have been living and working in Kenora, Ontario. War experience: Edward, aged… Read More »

Parrott, Cecil Leroi

Cecil Leroi (Roy) Parrott was born on 4 February 1893 in Oxbow, the Territories (now Saskatchewan). His father Robert James Parrott, the son of Irish immigrants, was from Bathurst, New Brunswick while his mother Naomi Caroline Sproule was from the Brock, Ontario area. The couple had married in 1887 in Cornwallis, Manitoba where Robert’s brother… Read More »

Hansen, John William

Illness and disease caused many casualties in the First World War and some soldiers died even before they left Canada.Trooper John William Hansen of Keewatin, Ontario had three older brothers who served overseas and they all survived the war. John joined the 34th Fort Garry Horse in December 1918 and the following spring, during his… Read More »