Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Favel, Walter Lawrence

Private Walter Lawrence Favel enlisted in October 1914, at age 19, and served overseas with the 27th Battalion. He was a prisoner of war from April 1916 until December 1918. Walter was born on 30 March 1895 in St. Louis Guilbert, Manitoba. He was the oldest son of Henry ‘Harry’ Favel and Mary Anna Bella… Read More »

Ringrose, Herbert

Herbert Ringrose was born on 20 December 1896 in Beverley, Yorkshire in England. His father John William Ringrose was from Beverley while his mother Emily Camelia Hickford was from Edmonton in Middlesex, with the couple marrying during the first quarter of 1900 in the registration district of Beverley. John worked as a tanners labourer, likely… Read More »

Pullar, James Glenson

Lieutenant James Glenson Pullar enlisted in Montreal in August 1915. He served overseas for more than three years and was awarded the Military Cross in October 1918. James was the son of William Pullar and Elizabeth Ann Drysdale of Calgary, Alberta. William, a railway engineer, was born in Belleville, Ontario and his wife was born… Read More »

Parsons, Henry Edmund

Henry Edmund Parsons was born 2 January 1887 in Rat Portage, Ontario. His parents were Alfred Joseph Parsons and Florence Nightingale Johnstone. Alfred and Florence were both born in Quebec, Alfred in Huntingdon and his wife in Sorel. They were married in Montreal in October 1883 and their first child, Beatrice, was born the following… Read More »

Carpentier, George Gabriel

Private George Gabriel Carpentier of Marchand, Manitoba enlisted in February 1917 at age 17. He served for eighteen months in England then spent three months in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion, returning to Canada in March 1919. Gabriel was the oldest son of Horace Carpentier and Marie Philomene Gosselin. Horace and Marie were… Read More »

O’Flaherty, Laurence

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 »

Scarfe, James Talbot

James Talbot Scarfe was born on 1 October 1877 in Leeds, Yorkshire in England. His father George John Scarfe was born in Ireland while his mother Alice Mary Talbot was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England. The couple married on 19 October 1876 in Trinity Church in Marylebone, London. George and his father James before… Read More »

Byers, Henry Joseph (Harry)

Although he gave his date of birth as 12 April 1896 on his attestation papers, Henry Joseph (Harry) Byers was born in 1898 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. A birth record was not found but elsewhere in his records the year was 1898 and was also given in census records and his obituary. His mother… Read More »

McRae, Alexander

Private Alexander (Alick) McRae enlisted with the 1st Canadian Contingent shortly after the war started and by April 1915 he was in the trenches in Belgium. He was wounded twice in the next three months, the second time seriously, and he died in a hospital in Edinburgh in August 1915. Alick grew up in Brora,… Read More »

Begg, Adolphus

Adolphus Henry Begg was born on 17 April 1891 in the Rat Portage, Ontario (later named Kenora) area. His parents were John and Juliette (Sturgeon) Begg. The son of Charles Begg, a Hudson Bay Company employee that had immigrated from Favel, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland in 1831 and married a Metis woman, Catherine Spence, Adolphus’ father… Read More »