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

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Millership, George John

George John Millership was born on 21 May 1890 in Causeway Green, Worcestershire, England. His parents George and Selina (née Brown) Millership had married during the third quarter of 1887 in King’s Norton, Worcestershire. By the 1891 census the family was living in nearby Cakemore, Worcestershire where father George was working as an engineer. Household… Read More »

Lindsay, Ernest

The son of George Lindsay and Caroline Johnson, Ernest Lindsay was born on 17 May 1893 in Napanee, Ontario. His father George was a fisherman in the Belleville/Napanee area although they may also have had a small farm. Ernest had four older siblings, George, Lilly, Grace, and Herbert. Sadly, it appears that Lilly, struck by… Read More »

Bullen, John Crellin

Private John Crellin Bullen was the only son of John Bullen and Marian Crellin of Cheshire, England. His parents were both born in Liverpool and they were married there in 1889. They had two daughters, Mary Elizabeth (1890) and Grace Emily (1893). John, their third and youngest child, was born in January 1900 in Seacombe,… Read More »

Wood, Sydney Ernest

Sapper Sydney Ernest Wood was married and the father of a young son when he enlisted with a railway unit in February 1917. Five months later he was severely wounded in Belgium and he was invalided home to Canada in December 1917. Sydney was born on 2 February 1885 in Deptford, London, England. His parents,… Read More »

Craig, William Henry

Gunner William Henry Craig was the son of Robert Craig Jr. and Julia McCormick of Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario. Robert was born in Ontario and Julia was from Ireland. They were married on 2 July 1891 and William, their oldest child, was born on 1 July 1892 in Almonte, a small village near Arnprior. William… Read More »

Primrose, Hiram

According to his attestation papers Hiram Primrose was born on 15 September 1885 in Deseronto, Ontario*. His father George Henry Alexander Primrose was from London, England while his mother Emily Jane Haynes was from Kaladar, Ontario. The couple married in 1876 in the township of Barrie where George had been farming. Children born to the… Read More »

Holland, Herbert Edward

Herbert Edward Holland, oldest son of Herbert and Kate Holland, was born on the 9th of July 1877 in Coventry, England. He was baptised in St. Michael’s Parish on 24 July 1877. His siblings included: Arthur Robert (b. 1878), Charles Mattocks (b. 1879), Ethel Kate (b. 1881), William Frederick (b. 1882), Ernest John (b. 1883)… Read More »

Reed, Charles

Sergeant Charles Reed was born in England and served in the British army during the war. He immigrated to Canada in 1924 and spent some time living and working in the Kenora area. Charles was the son of Richard Reed and Clara Ellen English. Richard was born in Cambridgeshire, England and Clara in Norfolk. They… Read More »

Lacasse, William

Born on 2  December 1892 in Keewatin, Ontario, William Lacasse was a middle son of Anselme (more commonly known as Samuel) and Wilhemina Melina (née Desmarais) Lacasse, parents being French Canadian, originally  from the Ottawa/Gatineau area. Samuel and Melina married on 27 April 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Melina’s family having moved to… Read More »