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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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The second born child of Richard and Sarah (née Bardosen) Martin, William Henry Martin was born on 6 December 1886 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father, the son of Cornish immigrants, had been born at sea as they were crossing the Atlantic while his mother was from Norway. Richard had first come… Read More »
Flight Second Lieutenant Stewart John Fullerton enlisted underage when he was 16 years old. He served for 2-1/2 years in Canada and England with the 94th Battalion and the Canadian Engineers. In June 1918 he was transferred to the Royal Air Force and he trained as a pilot for the next year, returning home in… Read More »
William Alton Elliott was born on 5 February 1897 in Portland, Leeds, Ontario. His parents Archibald ‘Archie’ Elliott and Eliza Jane Trotter were both from farms in the area, marrying on 15 November 1892 in nearby Athens. William had an older sister, Lenna, also born in Portland, and a younger sister Clella born in 1909… Read More »
James Aitken Sturgeon Hill was born Feb. 13, 1896 in Thornhill, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, the son of Thomas Hill and Jessie (née Sturgeon). Soon after James’ birth the family moved to Glasgow where James’ sister Janet was born in 1898. The family lived in Glasgow until 1911. They immigrated to Canada that year, going first to… Read More »
William McKechnie Duncan was born on 19 December 1897 in West Carron, Larbert, Stirlingshire in Scotland. His father David Duncan, an iron moulder, was from Falkirk while his mother Annie McKechnie was from Edinburgh where the couple married on 10 July 1877. Their first child, daughter Mary, was born in Edinburgh but by the time… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, James Smith was born on 29 August 1893 in Berwick upon Tweed. Berwick upon Tweed is located at the northern border of England and over the years had been battled for by both Scotland and England. Although James gave his country of birth as Scotland, in fact the village was… Read More »
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 »
With his birth registered during the 1st quarter of 1891 in Exeter, Devonshire in England, Mancel Clark was likely born on 18 February 1891. His parents James Clark and Emily Bowden were both from Exeter, marrying during the 3rd quarter of 1888. The 1891 census found the family living in Exeter where James was working… Read More »
Sapper Robert Charles Thompson enlisted in April 1915 and died at the Somme about a year and a half later. His younger brothers William and Clifford also enlisted and they both survived the war. Robert was the oldest son of William Richmond Thompson Sr. and Elizabeth O’Hara. According to census records William Sr. and Elizabeth… Read More »
