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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Frederick George Simpson was born on 01 December 1898 in Swidon, Wiltshire, England. His parents were Fred Simpson and Eliza Henams. In 1904 the family immigrated to Canada and settled in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. Another son, Harry, was born in 1905. By the 1911 Canadian census the family was living just outside Kenora… Read More »
Corporal John Wesley Loyst enlisted in March 1916 and served overseas for two and a half years. He was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge but he survived the war and returned home in June 1919. John was the oldest son of John Wesley Loyst Sr. and Mary Sinclair of Chase, British Columbia. John… Read More »
Private David Kejick was 20 years old when he enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in the fall of 1916. He served in Canada, England, France and Belgium for over two years and earned a Distinguished Conduct Medal in the last weeks of the war. The war started in August 1914 and by 1916 more volunteers were… Read More »
Lance Corporal Gordon Edwin Fraser enlisted with the 29th Battalion in November 1914, three months after the war started. He was seriously wounded at the Vimy front in 1917 and invalided back to Canada later that same year. Gordon was the oldest son of Andrew Fraser and Frances Elizabeth Fennell of Vancouver, British Columbia. Frances… Read More »
Private Russell Bosman enlisted in January 1915 and served in France as a lorry driver with a supply column. He returned home to Canada in 1917 after his father died and he was discharged from service on compassionate grounds. Russell was the oldest son of John and Laura Bosman of Brandon, Manitoba. John grew up… Read More »
Corporal John Paul enlisted with the 52nd Battalion and served in France and Belgium for almost three years. He was wounded at the Vimy front in April 1917 but he survived the war and returned to Canada in March 1919. John was born on 23 May 1896 in Victoria Harbour, Simcoe County, Ontario. His parents… Read More »
Birth, Parents and Siblings: Andrew Brown Johnston was born October 1, 1896, Charlestown, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. His parents were David Johnston (b. 1863 in Death, Fife) and Agnes Keir Brown (b. 1863 in Dunfermline). They were married in 1883. Their seven sons, all born in Scotland, were Ebenezer Wilkie (b. 1884); Alexander Brown (b. 1887);… Read More »
More than 11,000 employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company enlisted for service in the First World War. Sergeant Arthur Henry Jarvis was working for the CPR when he signed up in 1914 and he served for over four years, returning to Canada in January 1919. Arthur was the son of William Edward Alfred Jarvis… Read More »
Sapper James Albert Richard Williamson enlisted with the 52nd Battalion in Kenora, Ontario and served overseas for three and a half years, most of that time with the Canadian Engineers. He returned to Canada in March 1919. According to his attestation James was born in Keewatin, Ontario on 25 March 1886. Other records indicate a… Read More »
Laurence O’Flaherty was born during the month of October 1880 in Ballinhassig, Cork, Ireland, exact date unknown. His parents were Laurence and Elizabeth (née Costellos) O’Flaherty. Known siblings were Michael Augustine, Margaret Mary (Peggy), Mary Elizabeth (Polly), John Patrick, Eliza Lydia, Theresa Mary (Tessie), Madeline, Emily Costello, and Annie Violet, Laurence being the third youngest…. Read More »
