Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Turner, Thomas

Acting Corporal Thomas Turner was 35 years old, married and the father of three children when he enlisted in March 1917. He served overseas with the Canadian Forestry Corps for two years, returning home in April 1919. Thomas was the son of Jonah and Caroline Turner of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. He was born in Wolverhampton… Read More »

Dennett, Robert William

Robert William Dennett was born on 9 January 1894 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. His father, a solicitor’s clerk, was also named Robert and was born in Camberwell/Pimlico in London. Robert Jr’s mother was Henrietta Baldwin who had been born in Cholsey, Berkshire; the couple had married in Windsor in 1890. Robert had two younger sisters,… Read More »

Mann, Guy Edward

Lance Corporal Guy Edward Mann enlisted in the British army in July 1914 and served for almost five years in Great Britain and Western Europe. After the war he married and immigrated to Canada, later moving to the U.S. Guy was the son of Harry James Mann and Edith Eliza Pilch of Norfolk, England. Harry… Read More »

Dyer, Francis (Frank) John

Francis (Frank) John Dyer was born on 21 December 1900 in Kilburn, Middlesex, England. He was the eldest child of merchant seaman Francis Joseph Dyer  and Gertrude Shapcott. Siblings included sisters, Gertrude Louisa (b. 1901), Lilian Maud (b. 1904), Beatrice Nellie (b. 1905) and Nora Helena (b. 1907). His father enlisted with the Royal Garrison… Read More »

Hooper, Frederick James

Frederick James (Jim) Hooper was born on 28 December 1892 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) Ontario. His father Frederick Thomas Hooper was born in England while his mother Mary Sarah O’Sullivan was from Ireland, the couple marrying in 1883 in Detroit, Michigan. His father had worked on the construction of the MacKenzie canal at… Read More »

Wynne, Harold Everett

Lance Corporal Harold Everett Wynne enlisted in Winnipeg in March 1916, at age 18. He suffered a bayonet wound in September 1917 while training in France and he was invalided back to Canada about four months later. Harold was the only son of John Everett Wynne and Eliza Fowler. John and his wife were both… Read More »

Wright, Albert Ernest

Lance Corporal Albert Ernest Wright enlisted in December 1916 and served with the 44th Battalion in England, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in June 1919. Albert was born in Rat Portage, Ontario on 14 August 1890. His father, Oliver James Wright, was from Lavenham, Suffolk, England and he had immigrated to Canada in… Read More »

Gunn, James

James Gunn was born on 31 January 1887 in the district of St Andrew in Edinburgh, Scotland. Both of his parents were from Caithness in northern Scotland, his father Alexander Gunn from Watten and his mother Margaret Sutherland from Spitall Quarry, Wick. Alexander was working as a commercial traveller when the couple married on 5… Read More »

Tidman, John Emanuel

Private John Emanuel Tidman enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in November 1915. He served overseas for two years with the Canadian Forestry Corps and returned to Canada in February 1919. John was the son of Johan Henrik Tidman (Tideman/Tiderman) and Sigrid Kajsa Elfström. His attestation has his birthplace recorded as Stockholm, Sweden but in Swedish records… Read More »

King, William Charles

William Charles King was born 11 June 1870 in Hammersmith, England. He was the eldest child of William King and Emma Sarah Tomlin. His siblings were: Ellen Sarah (1872-1934; m. William J. Granville), James Edward (1876-1929), Emma Elizabeth (1880-1938; m. John E. Pike), Edward George (1884-1943), and Mary Annie (1887-1910). The family was living in… Read More »