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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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George Waugh was born on 1 April 1898 in the district of St Peter in the city of Dundee in Forfarshire, Scotland. Forfarshire was renamed as Angus in 1928. Dundee, a maritime city in the east of Scotland, is located on the River Tay as it flows into the North Sea. George’s father was William… Read More »
George Ritchie was born on 6 June 1897 in Belfast, Ireland. His parents were Holden and Jane Ritchie. Siblings included: Helena (b. 1891), Grace(b. 1896), Jean (1900 – 1964), Charlotte (b. 1902 – 1961), and Benjamin (1905 – 1955). In August of 1903 the family immigrated to Canada arriving aboard the ‘Bavarian’. The 1911 Canadian… Read More »
Birth, Parents and Siblings: According to his Attestation papers, Alexandre Giguere was born December 1, 1888, in the province of Quebec. One of his other military records states his birth was 1884;however, the 1891 Quebec census records him as age 8, thus, born about 1883. A birth registration has been located that confirms an 1883… Read More »
Gunner James Leonard McPherson was called up in March 1918 and served with the Canadian Field Artillery for nine months in Canada. James was the son of John McPherson and Margaret Carnegie of Keewatin, Ontario. John, a carpenter and millwright, was from London, England. He had at least four children with his first wife, Margaret… Read More »
Private James Edgerton Phillips enlisted in July 1916, at age 17, and served in France with the 20th (Central Ontario) Battalion. He was killed in action in August 1918, at age 19. James was the second of three sons of William Henry Phillips and Catherine Frances McNamara. William and Catherine were both born in Toronto… Read More »
Private John Buckland Freeman was born into a large family in Maidstone, Kent, England on 27 September 1885. His father, Edmund Freeman, was born in Maidstone and he worked as a labourer in stone quarries. John’s mother, Emily Buckland, was born in Maidstone or the nearby village of Ditton and she worked in local paper… Read More »
According to his Ontario birth record, Chester H Godfrey was born on 23 March 1878 in Hinchinbrooke, Ontario. This date and place differs from his attestation papers (25 March 1885 in Kingston, Ontario) and his obituary (15 March 1879 in Godfrey, Ontario). Chester’s parents were Coleman H Godfrey and Mary Ann Hill who had married… Read More »
Gunner Richard Thomas Philbin enlisted with the Canadian Field Artillery in March 1917 and served overseas for two years. He suffered gas poisoning at the Battle of Passchendaele but he survived the war and returned to Canada in May 1919. Richard was the only child of John Fairbairn Philbin and Margaret Hazlett of Rat Portage,… Read More »
William Ralph Challes was born to William John Challes and Mary Anna Garnsey on December 9th, 1897 in Taunton, Devon, Somerset, United Kingdom. In the 1901 census, father William is listed as a breadmaker. The family immigrated to Canada in 1910, and took up residence in Kenora. The 1911 Canadian census shows William Challes (baker at… Read More »
John Morris Knight was born on 26 February 1884 in Landport, Portsea Island, Hampshire England. Landport is a district located near the centre of Portsea Island and is part of the city of Portsmouth. His mother Mary Jane Lonnon, also from Landport, had married Alfred William Knight in 1867, marriage registered in the district of… Read More »
