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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Arthur Mayne Cox was born on 29 January 1878 in Lambeth, London, England. His father Jeremiah Cox was from Bradford in Devon while his mother Susan Jane Oliver was from St Ives in Cornwall. The couple married in 1876, marriage registered in St Pancras district of London. Children born to the family were Thomas Mayne… Read More »
John Morris Knight was born on 26 February 1884 in Landport, Portsea Island, Hampshire England. Landport is a district located near the centre of Portsea Island and is part of the city of Portsmouth. His mother Mary Jane Lonnon, also from Landport, had married Alfred William Knight in 1867, marriage registered in the district of… Read More »
Julius Schostak was born on 12 August 1880 in Lauenburg, Germany. His wife, Louise Kunkel, was born in 1889, most likely in what is now Poland. Julius and Louise were married in 1909 and they had three children – Irmgard (1910), Benjamin (1912) and Gerhard (1913) – born in the city of Petrikau. Petrikau is… Read More »
Private Julius Begg joined the U.S. Army Forestry Engineers in 1917. He served overseas for more than a year and returned home in February 1919. Julius was the son of William Charles Begg and Mary Ann Muggaberg. William was likely born in the Red River Settlement, which became part of the province of Manitoba. His… Read More »
The third born child, David Greenhill Miller, was born in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland on May 24, 1881 to Andrew Miller and Johann Porleous Greenhill. He had 2 older sisters Janet and Mary and his younger siblings were Alexander, George, Joanna Gilbert and Murray. David received his education in the ‘Old Country’ Scotland. He came to… Read More »
Although Thomas Hutchinson gave his date of birth on his attestation papers as 18 August 1884 in Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered during the third quarter of 1883. His mother was Emma Hutchinson, born in 1866 in Rosedale Abbey, and had been working as a servant for the Read family in Muscoates… Read More »
Archie Kenneth McKay was born on 27 April 1882 in Upper Clyde in the county of Shelburne in Nova Scotia. His father James Lewis McKay was from Upper Clyde, while his mother Elizabeth Barss Smith was from nearby Brookfield. The couple married in Brookfield on 29 September 1875. Children born to the family were Otis… Read More »
George Harry Stubbins (known as Harry) was born on 13 January 1888 in Manchester, England. His parents were Mark Stubbins, a carpenter and grocer, and Mary Henrietta Robinson. Siblings included James, Martha, John (Jack), Thomas and Mary (Polly). Harry served in the Royal Engineers for two years before coming to Canada. His first arrival in… Read More »
Thomas (Scotty) Young was born on 26 January 1872 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. His father John Young, a roads surfaceman, was from Dailly in Ayrshire while his mother Sarah Laverty was from Maybole where the couple married on 12 August 1870. Thomas had an older sister Ellen and a younger brother James. On 13 June… Read More »
Oscar John Green was born in Tännäs, Sweden on September 12, 1896. He was the son of John Green and Gertrude (Olson) Green. Gertrude was previously married and she had a daughter, Kristina Ronsberg. With John she had seven more children: Olaf/Ole, Axel, Gustave/Gustaf, Oscar, Magnus, Edward and Mary. The family immigrated to Canada in… Read More »
