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

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Jones, Andrew

Andrew Jones was born in Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland.   His parents were Andrew (Sr) Jones and Janet Anderson Gibson.   His father was a coal miner in Scotland.   Andrew was the oldest of at least 3 children; his siblings being Elizabeth and Rosina. The family was living in Scotland according to the census taken… Read More »

Cherry, Thomas Cecil

Thomas Cecil Cherry was born on 21 December 1895 in Keewatin, Ontario.  His parents were Thomas Joseph Cherry and Caroline Hawkin. Siblings included John Joseph Roland, Agnes, Marion and Norah. Cecil’s father was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada 1871. He was a Reeve for Keewatin in 1907 and 1908 becoming Keewatin’s first Mayor… Read More »

Lozinski, Joseph

Joseph Lozinski was born on 4 October 1899 in Bosyry, Ukraine. He was the son of Joannis (Jan) Lozinski and Anna Gurin (Hurin). According to a later article about his retirement, he served in the Polish Army from 1917 to 1925. On 24 October 1920, in the Ukraine, he married Tetana. In 1927 Joseph immigrated… Read More »

Finlayson, Hector John Peter

Private Hector John Peter Finlayson was called up under the Military Service Act in February 1918, at age 25. He served for fifteen months in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. Hector was the son of Nichol and Elizabeth Finlayson of Kenora, Ontario. Nichol’s father had been one of the early residents of Kenora, known… Read More »

Lang, William John

William John Lang was born 27 October 1881 in Hamilton, Ontario. His parents were Thomas Henry Lang (a brakeman on the railroad) and Louisa Lewis. Siblings included Charles (b. 1883) and Maggie (b. 1888). The family was living in St. Thomas Ontario in 1891 and 1901. William’s mother, Louisa, died in 1897 when he was… Read More »

Selman, Harry

Harry Selman was born during the second quarter of 1888 in Tormarton, Gloucestershire, England. His parents were Thomas Selman who was born in Tormarton and Sarah Green, born in Calstone, Wiltshire. The couple married on 7 May 1881 in Tormarton. Harry did not have any siblings that survived; two other children  had been born to… Read More »

Jeffrey, Jesse Richard

Private Jesse Richard Jeffrey enlisted in Kenora, Ontario and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion. He returned to Canada in April 1919 with a war bride and a baby son. Jesse was the son of Edwin John Jeffrey and Hannah Jane Alcock (Allcock) of Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. He was born… Read More »

Mableson, Robert Barker

Although his date of birth on his attestation papers was given as 24 August 1893, it is likely that  Robert Barker Mableson was born on 21 August 1892 in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England,  the date recorded on his gravemarker, as his birth was registered during the last quarter of 1892. His father Luke Mableson was from… Read More »

Jones, Walter Malcolm

Private Walter Malcolm Jones enlisted in Winnipeg in July 1915 and served in France with the 78th Battalion. He was wounded at the Vimy front in January 1917 and invalided back to Canada about a year later. Walter was one of six sons of Anson Jones and Sarah Halliday Armstrong of Mount Albert, Ontario. Anson… Read More »