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

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Mansfield, Horace

Sapper Horace Mansfield was born in Ireland on 23 November 1895, the son of John and Esther Mansfield of Cork, Cork County. He had at least six older sisters (Evelyn, Amelia, Violet, Jessie, Ethel and Mabel) and an older brother Cecil. The family was living in Cork for both the 1901 and 1911 censuses of… Read More »

Torrance, Victor

Victor Torrance was born on 18 December 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents William Torrance and Sophia Johnston were both from the area, William from Ashton and Sophia from Gloucester. At the time of their marriage in 1879 in Ottawa William was working as a carpenter. Also born in Ottawa was Victor’s older brother Robert…. Read More »

Cripps, Arthur Charles

Sapper Arthur Charles Cripps enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years. Arthur was the only son of Arthur Cripps (Sr.) and Maria Moore of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. His father had grown up in Gloucestershire and his mother was from Somerset. They were married in 1889… Read More »

Woodrow, Bertie

Bertie Woodrow, a tailor by trade, served from the opening days of the war until its end in two different armies, earning two sets of service medals. Born in Exeter, Devon, England, Bertie was the second of three children of John and Emily Woodrow. His brother Henry John was born in 1880 and sister Louisa… Read More »

Black, Peter

Peter Black was born on 24 June 1878 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland as confirmed by his birth registration. His father James Black, saddler, was from Coulter in Lanarkshire as was his mother Annie Duncan. The couple had married in Dunbartonshire. Peter was their first born child, followed by Mary Jane (1880), James (1985), Adam (1887),… Read More »

Youngman, Ralph

Private Ralph Youngman enlisted in January 1917 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Battle of Amiens and he suffered from trench fever and influenza, but he survived the war and returned to Canada in May 1919. Ralph was born on 7 November 1897 in Ava, Kinkaid… Read More »

Lavery, John

Joseph Pierre Jean Baptiste (John) Lavery was born on 7 January 1893 in the RM of St Francois Xavier in Manitoba. His parents Joseph Arsene Lavery and Marie Demerise St Armand were both from Quebec, marrying on 16 July 1888 in St Aubert, L’Islet. Arsene had previously been married to Beatrice Pelletier who died in… Read More »

Goodman, Gudmundur Fridjon

Gudmundur Fridjon Gudmundson was born on 29 August 1892 in Iceland. Along with his parents Thorlakur and Anna Gudmundson and older siblings Helga and David, he immigrated to Canada in1893. The family settled in the South Cypress area of southern Manitoba where they farmed. Along the way the children adopted the surname of Goodman, with… Read More »

Stacey, Leonard Brown

Second Lieutenant Leonard Brown Stacey enlisted in the 196th Battalion in 1916, at age 16, and received a commission in the Indian Army about two years later. He served with the Indian Army in Mesopotamia and returned to Canada in October 1919. Leonard was the youngest son of Reverend Frank Bainard Stacey and Susanna Johnson… Read More »