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

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Ruggles, Timothy Dwight

Timothy Dwight Ruggles was born on 11 February 1886 in Paradise, Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He was the second  child  of Charles Frederick and Emily Cecelia (née Gibson) Ruggles who had married in Bridgetown in 1883. Timothy had an older sister Annie Lillian and three younger siblings Frances Elizabeth, Stephen Sneden, and Charles Frederick. Timothy signed… Read More »

Ivanovitch, Ladimier

According to his attestation papers, Ladimier Ivanovitch was born 25 May 1892 in Russia.  In 1917 he was drafted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He signed his attestation papers on 11 November of 1917 in Winnipeg. It was noted that he was a defaulter, meaning he had not shown up when first called. At that… Read More »

Dawson, Ernest Jonathan

Private Ernest Jonathan Dawson was 18 years old when he arrived in France in February 1916. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Mount Sorrel and after spending a year in hospitals in England he was invalided to Canada in June 1917. Ernest was the oldest son of Arthur Ernest Dawson and Edith Mabel… Read More »

LaBelle, Daniel Leon

Daniel Leon LaBelle was born on 21 February 1880 in the township of Chichester, Pontiac, Quebec. For reasons unknown he was baptized in the nearby township of Sheenboro with the surname of Micheau, parents given as Michael Micheau, farmer, and Mary Brennan. His father usually went by the name of Michael Labelle, the name given… Read More »

Galloway, Cecil Charles

Cecil Charles Galloway was born  on 27 August 1889 in Arthur, Wellington, Ontario. His parents were Cyrus and Janet Scott (Small) Galloway who had married on 14 December 1881 in Arthur.  Cecil had four brothers, Cyrus Leslie, Hubert Scott, William Osgoode, and Norman Lloyd, and a younger sister, Janet (Jennie) Florence. For both the 1881 and… Read More »

Buckboro, Percy Roy

Sapper Percy Roy Buckboro enlisted in June 1915 and served in Canada and the UK for two years. He was discharged for health reasons in September 1917. Percy was the oldest son of Thomas Henry Buckboro (Buckborough) and Annie Margaret Burke of Winnipeg, Manitoba. His parents were both born in southern Ontario, Thomas in the… Read More »

Tandy, William

In October 1917 the Canadian Corps moved to the Ypres Salient in Belgium for the Battle of Passchendaele. Artillery shells had destroyed the drainage systems in the area and the battlefield was a wasteland of mud, swamp and water-filled shell holes. The Canadians suffered 15,000 casualties in the operation with over 3,000 men killed and… Read More »

Robinson, Arthur William

Arthur William Robinson was born on 28 September 1883 on the Isle of Wight, England. His father Timothy Robinson was also from the Isle of Wight, while his mother Elizabeth Wilkins was from Walworth in Surrey. The couple married during the first quarter of 1872 in the Isle of Wight. Arthur’s father was a mariner,… Read More »

Anderson, Robert

Robert, ‘Scotty’, Anderson was working as a butcher at Frank Gardener’s Meat Market in Kenora, Ontario when he enlisted with the CEF on 06 August 1915. On his attestation papers, Robert recorded 15 December 1885 as his birthdate, Glasgow Scotland as his birthplace, and his mother Jane Ritchie Anderson of Glasgow as his next of… Read More »