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

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Renner, Charles Mark

Charles Mark Renner was born on 14 August 1889 in Whitley in the registration district of Tyne, Northumberland, England. His father William Renner, a builder, was from Newbiggin while his mother Fanny Elizabeth Thompson was from Newcastle, both in Northumberland. The couple married on 18 August 1886 in Tynemouth. Children born to the family in… Read More »

Sansom, Stanley Bertram

Stanley Bertram Sansom was born on 23 February 1895 in Zephyr, Ontario. His father Alfred was from London, England while his mother Elizabeth Ann Foote was from Scott Township in the County of Ontario. Alfred, previously married to Sarah Ann Sutton who died in 1887, had two children from this marriage, Ethel Beatrice (1885-1965) and… Read More »

Rushton, Ernest

Ernest Rushton was born on 26 February 1895 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. His father Walter and mother Letitia (née Booth) Rushton had married in Worcester in 1894. While in England Walter’s occupation on the censuses was given as ‘China Printer Earth’. There were four children in the Rushton family, Ernest (b 1895), Percy Frank  (b… Read More »

Peacock, George James

George James Peacock was born on 12 December 1883 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Peacock. Siblings included sisters Alice, Harriett, Maria and Elizabeth; and brother John William. The 1901 England census records that George was working as a grocer’s apprentice. His father and brother were both… Read More »

Degagne, Leo Charles

Leo Charles Degagne was born on 06 March 1897 in Rat Portage (now Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Pierre George Degagne and Florida Charron. Siblings included: George (1893-1970), Emile (1894-1953), Joseph (1896-1966), Maria (1899-1899), Albert (1901-1901), Ida (1902-1903), Flora (b. 1904) and Clovis (1906-1915). The 1911 census showed the family living in the neighboring town… Read More »

Creed, Philip

Philip Creed was born on 9 May 1890 in Hastings, Sussex, England. His parents were Alfred and Rosa Hannah (maiden name also Creed) who had married in 1889 in Hastings. Alfred was a bootmaker by trade while Rosa was an elementary school teacher. Philip was their first born child, followed by Doris Helen in 1898… Read More »

Frim, James

Private James Frim (also known as Jim Flim) enlisted in Dryden, Ontario in the spring of 1916 and served in France for ten months before becoming seriously ill. He was invalided back to Canada and he passed away in June 1921. James was born around 1888 in Lac Seul, northern Ontario, the son of Annie… Read More »

McCormick, Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas McCormick was born on 23 March 1889 in Redickville in the Township of Melancthon, Dufferin, Ontario. His father Robert McCormick was born in Ireland and by the time of the 1881 Canada census was farming with his parents John and Letitia and siblings in Melancthon. His mother Agnes Matthews was born in the… Read More »

Lingwood, John

Soldier, actor, carpenter, town constable, radio repairman, cattle rancher, sewer inspector and those were just a some of the many jobs John Lingwood held over his lifetime. But it was his time as a soldier that most influenced his life. John Lingwood was born March 2, 1883 in Bareilly, India, the first child of British… Read More »

Edwards, Frank

Frank Edwards and his twin sister, Nora , were born on 12 November 1877 in Waterloo, Lancashire, England. His parents Ellis Edwards (a trader who had business in Africa with his headquarters in Liverpool) and Ellen Allen had married in 1864. Other siblings included Allan (1867-1897), Helen (1868-1950), Sybil (born 1880) and Gladys (born 1883)…. Read More »