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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Karl Oskar Bergström was born on 1 December 1895 in Söderhamn, Gävleborg, Sweden as supported by his Swedish birth record. His parents Lars Magnus Bergström and Maria Kajsa Larsdotter had married on 11 December 1886 in Söderhamn. Other children born to the family in Sweden were Johanna Elizabeth (1888), Johan Magnus (1890), Emma Amalia (1892),… Read More »
Private Robert Glass McDowall was 38 years old, married and living in Keewatin, Ontario when he enlisted in August 1916. He was sent overseas a month later and he served for two and a half years with the Canadian Forestry Corps in England. Robert was born on 7 January 1878 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. He… Read More »
Private Bruce Liddle enlisted in September 1915 and served for four years in the UK, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in September 1919 and his British war bride joined him the following spring. Bruce was the oldest of four children of Robert Liddle and Jessie Ann Park. Jessie was born in Newcastle, Northumberland,… Read More »
Private Charles Alfred Mellish enlisted underage when he was just 14 years old and he served in garrison regiments in Canada for ten months. Charles was the son of Alfred Mellish and Rosa Derry of Vancouver, BC. Alfred was born and raised in Galt, Waterloo County, Ontario and he was a tinsmith and metalworker. Rosa… Read More »
Born on 28 September 1888, John Miller (Jack) Brown grew up on a large farm called Monmouth House in the area of Long Sutton-Lutton in Lincolnshire, England. It appears that his father Thomas Miller Brown took over the management of the farm from his father John Brown in the mid to late 1880’s. During the… Read More »
Robert Davidson Fisher was the son of Robert Armour Fisher and Mary Jane Davidson. His father Robert also signed up at the same time in Kenora, Ontario. On his attestation papers he had lied about his year of birth, stating that it was 1897. It was discovered later that he was underage when he joined up… Read More »
Albert Ernest Jefford was born on 16 October 1891 in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England. His parents were Ernest Jefford, an agricultural labourer, and Lydia Ann Brown. Siblings included: Lydia (b. 1882; married William Webb), Edith (b. 1884; married John Haggett), Alice Matilda (b. 1887), James William (b. 1897; served in WW1) and Dorothy May (b…. 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 »
Private Romuald (Ronald) Mathieu was born in 1892 in St. Antoine Abbé, Huntingdon County, Quebec. According to his baptism record he was born on 2 November but most other records have his birth date as 31 October. His parents were Noë Mathieu, a farmer, and Marie Paméla Pied. Noë and Paméla were both born in… 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 »
