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

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Millership, George John

George John Millership was born on 21 May 1890 in Causeway Green, Worcestershire, England. His parents George and Selina (née Brown) Millership had married during the third quarter of 1887 in King’s Norton, Worcestershire. By the 1891 census the family was living in nearby Cakemore, Worcestershire where father George was working as an engineer. Household… Read More »

Love, James Alexander

James Alexander Love was born on 24 May 1885 in Listowell, Perth, Ontario. He was the first born child of Irish immigrants William Love and Mary Ann Scott. Another child, daughter Annie Jane, was born in Listowell before the family moved to the Tenby/Kelwood area in Manitoba to farm, living there by the time of… Read More »

Byers, Henry Joseph (Harry)

Although he gave his date of birth as 12 April 1896 on his attestation papers, Henry Joseph (Harry) Byers was born in 1898 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. A birth record was not found but elsewhere in his records the year was 1898 and was also given in census records and his obituary. His mother… Read More »

Warner, Harry Rupert

Private Harry Rupert Warner joined the 52nd Battalion in December 1914 and served overseas for a year and a half. For most of that time he suffered ill health and he was invalided back to Canada in May 1917 to continue his medical treatment. Harry Rupert was born on 27 May 1888 in Thornton Heath,… Read More »

Iriam, Frank Stanley

When the First World War started Frank Stanley Iriam  was one of the early volunteers, training with the 98th Regiment in his hometown of Kenora, Ontario in August 1914 then enlisting with the 8th Battalion CEF at Valcartier in September. Five months later he arrived in France with his unit and he survived three and… Read More »

Matier, Alexander

Private Alexander Matier was wounded in May 1916, three months after arriving in France with the 52nd Battalion. He was invalided to Canada in June 1917 and he died in Winnipeg three years later. Alexander was the son of Alexander Matier Sr. and his first wife Grace Ann Felt. Alexander Sr. had emigrated from Ireland… Read More »

Craig, Henry Hill

Henry Hill Craig was born on 26 October 1896 in Ottawa, Ontario. His father John McFarlane Craig was from Paisley, Scotland while his mother Elizabeth Hill was from Ireland. The couple married during the month of August in 1886 at the Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church in Montreal, Quebec. Settling in the Ottawa area, at the… Read More »

Dubord, George Ellery

Although he gave his birth year as 1894 on his attestation papers, George Ellery Dubord was born 12 December 1897, birth registered in the District of Rainy River in northwestern Ontario. His father Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dubord had been born in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, the son of Joseph and Marie Louise Hedwige (Hamelin) Dubord. By… Read More »

Reeves, Percy Harper

Percy Harper Reeves was born on 27 August 1893 in Parishville, St Lawrence County, New York. His father Samuel Reeves, a barber, was from Brantford, Ontario while his mother Mary Elizabeth (Eliza) Jesmer was from the Parishville area where her family farmed. By the time of the 1891 Canada census Eliza was living in Brantford… Read More »