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

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Holland, Charles Edgar

Charles Edgar Holland was born 04 August 1900 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Herbert Edward Holland and Ada Black Donkin. He  was the oldest of five children of this couple. His siblings were  Evelyn May, John Frederick, Winnifred Jean and Ada Gertrude. A year  after Charles’ birth the family moved to Manitoba… Read More »

Alcock, Charles

Charles Alcock was born on March 26, 1869, in Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario. He was one of at least 14 children of Joseph Samuel Alcock and  Sarah Ann Belch. When the 1891 census was taken his parents were still living in the Belleville area where his father was farming. By 1901 Charles and his family… Read More »

MacLeod, William George

Private William George MacLeod was born in Canada and living in Scotland when the war started. He served in the British Army with the Seaforth Highlanders and died of wounds in June 1917. His father and all three of his brother also served in the war. William was the son of Duncan McLeod and Mary… Read More »

Drew, George

The son of John and Elizabeth (née Page) Drew, George Drew was born on 1 May 1895 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. For the 1901 England census the family was living in Gorleston, Norfolk, England, father’s occupation given as engine driver. The children listed with the parents in the census were Elizabeth, Sarah, Ellen, George, and… Read More »

Bassett, Benjamin

Benjamin Bassett was born on 10 September 1885 in the city of Waterford in Ireland. His father George Walter Bassett, a wine merchant, was from Waterford, while his mother Sarah Jane Caldbeck was from County Wexford. The couple had married in Waterford in 1877. Children born to the family were George Thomas (1878), Frederick Richard… Read More »

McMaster, Charles Wellington

Charles was one of those recruits who faked his birth date when he enlisted for the Canadian army but unlike most recruits who fibbed about their ages, he took three years off his life instead of adding them on. He was 37 at the time. The army’s age limits were 18 years to 45 years… Read More »

Barraclough, John Alfred

John Alfred Barraclough was born on 13 April 1884 in Elland, Halifax, Yorkshire in England. His parents David Barraclough, an insurance agent, and Martha Thompson were both from Yorkshire, their marriage registered during the 3rd quarter of 1878 in Halifax, Yorkshire. Children born to the couple were Annie (1879), James Herbert (1882), John Alfred, Samuel… Read More »

Green, John Bennett

John Bennett Green was born in Morpeth, Northumberland,  England on January 12, 1893.   John was the son of David Green and Rachael (Emily) Bennett.   David and Rachael (Emily) also had  5 daughters.   His sisters were Mrs. W. F. Collings, Elfreda (Mrs. A. Beckworth), Mrs. J. R. Cherry, Edith and Mrs. F. Donahoe…. Read More »

Morrow, Robert Clark

Robert Clark Morrow was born on 28 June 1894 in his family home  at 93 Blackburn Street, Govan, Glasgow. His parents Daniel and Mary (née Clark) Morrow had married on 31 December 1891 in Govan. Daniel’s occupation was given as sailmaker and Mary’s as domestic servant. For the 1901 Scotland census the Morrow family was… Read More »

Colpman, Frank Joseph

Corporal Frank Joseph Colpman enlisted with an artillery unit in October 1915 and served overseas for more than three years. He returned to Canada in May 1919 with a war bride. Frank was the oldest son of Arthur White Colpman and Mabel Mary Pollard. Arthur was born in 1859 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England and he… Read More »