Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Logan, Daniel

According to his attestation papers that he signed on 22 February 1916 in Kenora, Ontario, Daniel Logan was born on 23 August 1874 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. A birth registration was not found nor was an age appropriate immigration/passenger list record of his coming to Canada. He gave his son Edward with the 10th… Read More »

Jones, Albert

The name of veteran Albert Jones is inscribed on the Keewatin Lake of the Woods Milling Company plaque as well as the Town of Keewatin For King and Country plaque. His identity could not be confirmed.    

Snaddon, Andrew Johnston

Major Andrew Johnston Snaddon enlisted in the spring of 1915 and served in France with the 4th Battalion. He was killed in October 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. Andrew was born on 19 October 1888 in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. His parents were Andrew Snaddon and Margaret Sharp. Margaret was born in Clackmannan and… Read More »

Reeves, James George

James George Reeves was born to Jonathan and Sarah Ann Reeves on April 13, 1880 in Tadworth, Surrey, England. In the 1891 U.K. census, his mother was 59, father 54 and there were several siblings: Frances Elizabeth (30), William Jonathan (21), Ada (20), Thomas (15), James George himself (12), and Herbert Edgar (9). In the… Read More »

Adams, F

The Lake of the Woods Milling Company in Keewatin, Ontario created a roll of honour after the war, commemorating the fallen as well as all that served. One of the fallen was listed as F Adams.    

Harcourt, Cecil Copp

Lieutenant Cecil Copp Harcourt served with Canadian Corps Cyclists before being given a commission in the British army, with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was wounded twice, at the Somme and at Ypres, and invalided home to Canada in June 1918. Cecil was born on 29 May 1893 in Toronto, Ontario, the youngest of three… Read More »

Chapman, William John (1895-1975)

Private William John Chapman enlisted in 1915 and served for almost four years with the Canadian Army Service Corps and the Canadian Forestry Corps. He enlisted again in the Second World War, serving for three years in Canada and the UK. William was born on 18 July 1895 in Gateshead, Durham, England, the son of… Read More »

Wickham, Joseph

Joseph Wickham was born on 28 June 1891 in Newthorpe in the registration district of Tadcaster in Yorkshire West, England. His father Samuel Wickham was from Gravesend in Kent while his mother Sarah Barrow was from Crewe in Cheshire. The couple’s marriage was registered during the second quarter of 1888 in the district of Nantwich,… Read More »

James, Ernest Walter

Ernest Walter James was born on 08 January 1891 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England.  He was the third son of blacksmith, Noah James and Augusta ELLEN Elliott.  His siblings included Nellie ‘Ellen’ (b. 1887), Henry Edward (b. 1888), Arthur Frederick (b. 1889), Reginald Wilfred (b. 1896), Margaret May (b. 1897) and Winifred Maud (b. 1903). Ernest… Read More »

Campbell, Frederick Kenneth

Frederick Kenneth Campbell was one of the early volunteers for Canada’s war effort. He joined the 34th Fort Garry Horse, a cavalry unit, on Aug. 27, 1914, in Winnipeg as part of Canada’s First Contingent of 30,000 men being raised for the war effort. The 34th, which numbered about 250 officers and men, was merged… Read More »