Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Beach, Aloysius Francis

Aloysius Francis Beach was born in Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota on 13 October 1897. His parents were Leander Beach and Catherine Agnes Halligan. Leander was born in Wisconsin and Catherine in Minnesota. They were married in Flandreau in January 1897 and Aloysius was their first child. He was followed by Wilfred Louis (1899), Cecilia… Read More »

Sawkins, Frederick Frank

Frederick Frank (Fred) Sawkins was born on 11 April 1889 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His father William Henry Sawkins was born in St George, London while his mother Amelia Mary Clarke was from Upton, Worcestershire. The couple married during the last quarter of 1882 in the Registration District of King’s Norton, Worcestershire. Their first two… Read More »

Comeau, Jules Peter

Sapper Jules Peter Comeau enlisted in July 1916 and served in France and Belgium for more than two years. He returned to Canada in March 1919. Jules was born on 6 July 1885 in Richibucto, Kent County, New Brunswick, a small town on the northeast coast of the province. He was the youngest son of… Read More »

Sleightholm, Cecil Talmage

Cecil Talmage (Bud) Sleightholm was born on 9 July 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents Matthew Sleightholm and Agnes Victoria Matthew were both widower/widows when they married on 30 April 1893 in Horning’s Mill in the Township of Melancthon, Dufferin, Ontario. At the time of the marriage Matthew was… Read More »

Killough, George

George Killough was born on 28 March 1896 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father William Killough was originally from Ireland and had married Mary Brownlie (née Cowie), a young widow with a small daughter Isabella Brownlie, on 29 July 1894 in the District of Milton, Glasgow. Living a few houses apart on Hopehill Road at the… Read More »

Bergsten, Erik Herbert

Erik Herbert Bergsten was born on 22 January 1888 in Juni in the parish of Njurunda in the county of Västernorrland, Sweden. Njurunda was located at the mouth of the Ljungan River and later was absorbed by nearby Sundsvall. His father Per Olof Bergsten was from Njurunda while his mother Lovisa Bergström was from Sunne,… Read More »

Clutterbuck, Lawrence

Private Lawrence Clutterbuck enlisted in Calgary in February 1915, at age 17, and served in France and Belgium with the 18th Battalion and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He suffered shell shock and shell gas poisoning but he recovered and returned home in June 1919. Lawrence was the son of Austin Clutterbuck and Ruth Land… Read More »

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 »

Saunders, George Edgar

George Edgar Saunders was born on 3 August 1879 in Selkirk in the Township of Walpole, Haldimand, Ontario. His parents William Saunders, a carriage maker, and Martha Graham were both from Ontario, marrying on 16 September 1874 in Selkirk. George had two older brothers, Albert Edwin (1875) and Harvey (1877), and a younger brother William… Read More »

Moore, Frank John

With brown hair, gray eyes, and only 1/2 inch difference in height, the Moore twins were born on the same day, had their medical examinations on the same day, both were working as trainmen for the Canadian Pacific Railway at the time of the war, and both were called up for service on the same… Read More »