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

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Ramsay, Alexander Kelly

Alexander Kelly Ramsay was born on 1 September 1894 in Maybole, Ayrshire in Scotland. His father James Ramsay, a shoemaker, was from Kirkmichael, Ayr, while his mother Margaret Kelly was from Maybole where the couple had married on 14 June 1889. Alex had two older siblings, Joanna (1890) and William (1892) and younger sisters Agnes… Read More »

Moran, Nicholas

Nicholas Moran was born on 30 September 1870 in Cleristown, County Wexford, Ireland where the family farmed, date confirmed by his baptism record. His parents Matthew Moran and Bridget Codd married on 27 June 1867 in the District of Wexford. Known children born to the couple were Mary (1868), Anty (1869-1873), Nicholas, Robert (1872), Matthew… Read More »

McLeod, Duncan (1897-1941)

Private Duncan McLeod (Jr.) was born in Canada and living in Scotland when the war started. He served in the British army and moved back to Canada after the war. Duncan was the son of Duncan McLeod Sr. and Mary Munro of Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were both born in Scotland and they immigrated to… Read More »

Peacock, Charles

Charles Peacock was born on 28 May 1898 in Red Rock, New Brunswick. He was the son of David Peacock and Margaret Currie. He was a brother to Norman Peacock who also served in WW1.   His other siblings were Ernest Robert, Ella, Dorothy, Clara, Queenie, Grace, Edna, and Eva. Charles enlisted April 14, 1916… Read More »

Olson, August Valfrid Oskar

August Valfrid Oskar Olsson was born on 12 October 1895 in Westland, Skön, Västernorrland, Sweden (spelling of name on birth registration; as many Swedish immigrants did, August gave Sundsvall as his birth place as it was the nearest city to his village of birth). His father August Olsson, born in 1866, was from Klintsjon, Nysätra,… Read More »

Wilson, John Samuel (1892-1954)

Their third born child, John Samuel Wilson was born on 6 March 1892, birth registered in the Township of Pickering. His father Thomas Fawcett Wilson had been born in Green River, Pickering  while his mother Annie Elizabeth Spence was from nearby Cedar Grove. The couple married on 2 June 1886 in Stouffville, County of York, with… Read More »

Rushton, Horace Walter

Horace Walter Rushton was born on 25  October 1897 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. His father Walter and mother Letitia (née Booth) Rushton had married in Worcester in 1894. While in England Walter’s occupation on the censuses was given as ‘China Printer Earth’. There were four children in the Rushton family, Ernest (b 1895), Percy Frank… Read More »

Hudec, Andrew

The son of Miclas and Julia (née Durta) Hudec, Andrew Hudec was born on 9 June 1900 in Hornykamenec, Nitoa in Czechoslovakia and served during WW1, details unknown. He immigrated to Canada in 1927, settling in Kenora, Ontario where he found work with the Ontario Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company. On 2 September 1933, in… Read More »

Johnson, Harold John

Private Harold John Johnson was a lifelong resident of Kenora, Ontario except for a period of five years around the time of the First World War. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the U.S. and in France. Harold’s mother, Erika Karolina Engström, was born in Overlulea, Norrbotten, Sweden. She immigrated to Canada in… Read More »

Hulse, James

James Hulse was born on 12 March 1880 in Derby, Derbyshire in England. His father Thomas Hulse, baker and confectioner, was from the District of Runcorn in Cheshire while his mother Mary Thomas was from Derby where the couple had married during the last quarter of 1877. James had an older brother, John. Thomas died… Read More »