Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Holt, Harry

Lance Corporal Harry Holt joined the British army in 1912 and served for eight years, two of them spent as a German prisoner of war. After his discharge in 1920 he immigrated to Canada. Harry was the son of Walter Holt and Eliza Riley of Manchester, Lancashire, England. Walter and Eliza were married in 1890… Read More »

Lusty, Thomas

Thomas, with the surname of Dalton, was born on 20 April 1894 in the Liverpool Workhouse in Liverpool, England. His mother was Catherine Canning who was born in 1859 in Liverpool. Catherine married William Gilray, a mariner, in November of 1877 in Liverpool. In February of 1880 she then married William Lawson, Catherine listed as… Read More »

Knipe, William James

Farrier Sergeant William James Knipe enlisted with the Canadian Engineers and served for three years in England, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in August 1919 with a war bride. William was the only son of James and Elizabeth Knipe of Liverpool, Lancashire, England. James worked as a carpenter and shipwright and he married… Read More »

Moose, Frederick

Private Frederick Moose enlisted in August 1915 and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He returned to Canada in March 1919. According to his attestation paper, Fred was born on 17 September 1891 in Nelson House, Manitoba. He was working in the Kenora area in northwestern… Read More »

Cox, William John

Private William John Cox was one of four brothers who served in the First World War. He was called up in 1918 and he spent a year with the Canadian Garrison Regiment in Halifax. William John, usually known as John, was born on 15 June 1895 in Gravenhurst, District of Muskoka, Ontario. He was the… Read More »

Young, Thomas

Thomas (Scotty) Young was born on 26 January 1872 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. His father John Young, a roads surfaceman, was from Dailly in Ayrshire while his mother Sarah Laverty was from Maybole where the couple married on 12 August 1870. Thomas had an older sister Ellen and a younger brother James. On 13 June… Read More »

Findlay, John

John Findlay was born on 13 April 1898 in Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland, a community about twelve kilometres outside of Edinburgh. His father Samuel Findlay, a miner, was born in 1859 Beith in Ayrshire while his mother Jane Manson was born in 1855 in Dailly, Ayrshire. The couple married on 14 February 1890 in Ayr. They… Read More »

Fleming, Thomas Alexander

Although he gave a birth date of 4 February 1896 on his attestation papers, and his gravemarker  has a birth year of 1898, a birth registration for Thomas Alexander  Fleming, in Londonderry, Ireland, gives the date as 5 February 1895.  His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sarah (Wilkinson) Fleming. His siblings were William John (1889-1975),… Read More »

Nohlgren, Frederick Helge

Corporal Frederick Helge Nohlgren was born on 17 March 1894 in Texas. His parents, Axel Nohlgren and Sophia Larson, had both emigrated from Sweden. When he was still a baby they moved to Canada and settled in North Norfolk, Manitoba. Seven more children were born there: Nellie, Axel, Olga, Anna, Oscar, Edith and Nelson. Anna… Read More »

Neale, Robert Ernest

Private Robert Ernest Neale joined the 52nd Battalion in April 1915 and served for four years in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. He returned home in March 1919 with a war bride. Robert was the son of William Neale and Emily Fry of Tatsfield, Surrey, England. His parents were both born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire… Read More »