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

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Suter, Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Suter was born on 21 September 1884 in the Bosham/Chidham/Nutbourne area in south central England, later censuses giving his place of birth as Nutbourne. His parents Frank Suter and Eliza Hackett were both from the same area, their marriage registered during the first quarter of 1884. Frank was a railway platelayer, a railway… Read More »

Creighton, George Francis

Although he gave his year of birth as 1885 on his recruitment papers, George Francis Creighton was likely born on 2 July 1883 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. A birth record was not found but census documents as well as his obituary and grave marker support that birth year. His father George Creighton,… Read More »

Howard, William Thomas

Private William Thomas Howard enlisted at age 18 and served overseas for three years. He spent a year in France and Belgium with the 28th Battalion and several months with a trench mortar battery. William was the oldest son of William Henry Thomas and Gertrude Wilson of Kenora, Ontario. William Henry was born in England… Read More »

Wilson, William

According to his later marriage record and obituary, William Wilson, the son of John and Annie Wilson, was born on 12 August 1895 in County Donegal in Northern Ireland. However he was the son of Mary Anne Sproule and was born on 14 August 1893 in the workhouse in Letterkenny, Donegal. By the time of… Read More »

Ross, William

According to his attestation papers, William Ross was born on 10 May 1893 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small community about five kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. However the 1901 Canada census gave the date as 8 January 1895 and his later obituary as 3 January 1889 in Rush Bay west of Keewatin on… Read More »

Newman, Ernest Maitland

Ernest Maitland Newman was born on 01 October 1899 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.  His parents were Colin Campbell Newman and Helen Margaret Armstrong.  Siblings included: Charles Frederick (1892-1938), Helen Margaret (1893-1976) and Victor Bell (1896-1981). When he was 18, on 3 June 1918, Ernest enlisted with the RAF in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  He served in… Read More »

Watson, Norman Campion

Norman Campion Watson was born on 13 August 1892 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father James Watson, a bank clerk, was from Lanark while his mother Margaret Yule Campion was from Edinburgh. The couple married on 5 September 1878 in Edinburgh. Known children born to James and Margaret were Edith Jane (1879), Margaret Lindsay (1882), James… Read More »

Fugere, Joseph Philippe Alexandre

Joseph Philippe Alexandre Fugere was born on 12 March 1887 in Maria, Quebec, a community on the southeast coast of the Gaspé Peninsula about 70 kilometres from the New Brunswick border. His father Boniface Fugere was a farmer and had married Philippe’s mother Elizabeth Glawser on 12 January 1886 in nearby Carlton. Boniface’s first wife… Read More »

Morrisette, Elmo Murray

Sapper Elmo Murray Morrisette enlisted in January 1917, at age 16, and served in France with the Canadian Engineers. He was wounded at the Battle of Amiens and invalided to Canada six months later for further medical treatment. Elmo Murray, usually known as Murray, was the son of William Morrisette and Maude Bell Shipton of… Read More »