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

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Stratton, Stanley Carter

Stanley Carter Stratton was born on 6 November 1890 in Gardner, Massachusetts. His parents were George Kendall Stratton and Fannie Goodridge. He had two brothers and one sister: Fred Leighton (b. 1886), Harriet Goodridge (b. 1889) and Raymond Kendall (b. 1895, d. 1903). Stanley grew up in Bradford, New Hampshire and attended Simons Free High… Read More »

Davis, Charles Houlton

Charles Houlton Davis was born on 29 April 1888 in Gloucester, England. His father, Charles Davis was a clerk in holy orders and his mother’s name was Eleanor. Siblings included Amy (born 1878), Edgar (1881), Harold (born 1886), Ethel (born 1893) and Dora (born 1899). Charles immigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec aboard the Ionian… Read More »

Webb, Earl Edward

Earl Edward Webb was born on 24 December 1893 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town a few kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His parents William Webb and Josephine Zapfe married on 5 November 1880 in Bayfield, Ontario. By the next year the couple was living in Guelph, Ontario, giving birth to son William… Read More »

Friend, Alfred Henry

Alfred Henry (Harry) Friend was born on 22 May 1880 in Totterdown, Bristol Gloucestershire, England. His father Silas Samuel Friend, an engine fitter by trade, was from Corsham in Wiltshire while his mother Ellen Tinker  was from Stirt, also in Wiltshire. Silas and Ellen had married in 1878 in the registration district of Barton Regis, Gloucestershire…. Read More »

Armstrong, Robert Wharton

According to his attestation papers Robert Wharton Armstrong was born on 14 October 1891 in South Shields, Durham in England. His father Robert Wharton Armstrong was from Sunderland in Durham while his mother Etta Moore was from High Shields, Durham, the couple marrying during the 3rd quarter of 1890. Robert was their first born child… Read More »

Linn, William Oliver

William Oliver Linn was born on 31 October 1874 in the township of Smith, Peterborough, Ontario, date confirmed by his Ontario birth record. He was the son of David Linn and Ann Regan who had married on 21 October 1868 in Peterborough. His known older siblings were David and Emma while younger siblings were Eliza… Read More »

Galloway, Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd Galloway was born on 26 January 1893 in Arthur, Wellington, Ontario. His parents were Cyrus and Janet Scott (Small) Galloway who had married on 14 December 1881 in Arthur. Norman had 4 older siblings, Cyrus Leslie, Hubert Scott, William Joseph Osgoode, and Cecil Charles, and a younger sister, Janet (Jennie) Florence. For both… Read More »

Armour, James

Private James Armour served in France with the 43rd Battalion for a year before being wounded at Passchendaele in October 1917. He was invalided back to Canada in the fall of 1918. James was born on 27 January 1890 in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland. His parents, Thomas Armour and Jane Kennedy, were married in 1886 and… Read More »

Ferrier, Lionel Gray

Staff Sergeant Lionel Gray Ferrier was called up in November 1917, at age 22. He served in Canada and Great Britain for two years, most of that time with Clearing Services Command. Lionel was the only son of Robert Wallace Ferrier and Sarah Ann ‘Sadie’ Gray of Kenora, Ontario. Robert and Sarah were both born… Read More »

McDonald, Norman

Private Norman McDonald enlisted in Winnipeg, Manitoba and served with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in France and Belgium. He was wounded in September 1918 but he survived the war and returned to Canada in February 1919. Norman’s birth was registered as 10 May 1879 in Dawn Township, Lambton County, Ontario. His parents, Edward McDonald… Read More »