Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Ovens, Edward William

Private Edward William Ovens was the son of Isaac Ovens and Katherine (Kate) Winner of East Selkirk, Manitoba. Isaac was born in Ontario to Irish parents and Kate was American and of German ancestry. Their first three children were born in Colorado: Hilyard Verl (1891), Thomas Earl (1893) and Ruby Lenore. The family moved to… Read More »

Hutton, Thomas

Thomas Hutton was born on 24 January 1896 in Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland.  His parents were William James Hutton and Williamina Staig.  Siblings included Lydia (b. 1881), William (b. 1884), Jessie (b. 1886), David (b. 1888), Annie (b. 1890), Minnie (b. 1892), and Mary (b. 1894). In April 1908 Thomas’ father, William, and his brother,… Read More »

Anderson, Robert Allan

Private Robert Allan ‘Andy’ Anderson enlisted in March 1916 at age 15 and served in the UK for two years, most of that time with the Young Soldiers’ Battalion. Robert was born on 12 October 1900 in Holland, Manitoba. He was the son of Mrs. Jessie Ann Tew (née Miller) and her first husband Adam… Read More »

Harris, Edward John

Edward John Harris was born on 13 November 1883 in Abingdon, Berkshire, England. His parents Frank Henry Harris, an emery wheel and machine maker, and Sarah Jane Reeves had married during the first quarter of 1878 in the registration district of Wantage in Berkshire. Edward had two older siblings, Muriel Hannah (1879) and Henry Reeves… Read More »

L’Heureux, Cecil Peter

Private Cecil Peter L’Heureux enlisted in January 1916 and arrived in France seven months later. He was wounded twice that same year, in September at the Somme Offensive and in December at the Vimy front. He was invalided back to Canada in September 1917. Cecil was the son of Peter L’Heureux and Ellen (Nellie) O’Hara… Read More »

Bray, Sidney Joseph

Gunner Sidney Joseph Bray joined the Canadian Field Artillery in November 1914 and served for almost four years in Canada, England, France and Belgium. He was seriously wounded in September 1918 and he spent a year recovering in hospitals. Sidney was the oldest child of John Joseph Bray and Mary Ann Southam Shelbourne of Peterborough,… Read More »

Newell, Edwin Robert

Edwin Robert (Ted) Newell was born on 21 October 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Edwin Newell was from England while his mother Jane Donnelly was from Ontario. It appears that the couple first lived in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba before moving to northwestern Ontario. The… Read More »

Kelley, William Henry

Although he gave his birth year as 1895 on his attestation papers, William Henry Kelley was born on 22 October 1894 in Keewatin, Ontario. His father David Kelley and his mother Catherine Jane Boswell were both from Liverpool, England and had immigrated to Canada in 1887. Along with his parents George and Lucy Kelley and… Read More »