Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Lenton, Francis Henry

Lance Corporal Francis Henry Lenton enlisted in August 1915 and served overseas for three years in England, France, Belgium and Germany. He returned to Canada in June 1919. Francis (Frank) was the oldest son of Frederick Henry Lenton and Marion Eliza Smith of Selkirk, Manitoba. His parents were both born in England, Fred in Hampstead,… Read More »

MacKenzie, Stormont Green

Stormont (Monte) Green MacKenzie was one of three sons and two daughters of William and Lizzie MacKenzie of Kenora, Ontario. His parents were born in Scotland and immigrated separately to Canada in the 1880s, meeting and marrying in Brandon, Manitoba in 1889 where William worked as a dry goods store clerk. Monte, born in 1891,… Read More »

McLeod, James Norman

James Norman McLeod was born on 5 September 1892 in Toronto, Ontario. His parents Samuel James and Winnifred Victoria (née Jones) McLeod had married in Toronto in 1885. Samuel’s occupation over the years was listed as bookkeeper. Children born to the family in Toronto were Dorothy Marie (1885-1958), John Keith (1889), Norman, Janet Blanche (1894-1895),… Read More »

Southworth, William Esta

Private William Esta Southworth enlisted in 1915 and served in France and Belgium with the 16th Battalion. He was wounded twice, in May 1916 and April 1917, but he survived the war and returned to Canada in February 1919. William was the son of Charles William Southworth and Fanny May Stowe of Revelstoke, British Columbia…. Read More »

Richmond, Arthur Gordon

  Gunner Arthur Gordon Richmond was a student when he enlisted in January 1916, at age 17. He served in Great Britain, France and Belgium with the Canadian Field Artillery and returned home in July 1919. Arthur was born on 1 July 1898 in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario. His parents, George James Richmond and… Read More »

Murphy, James Anthony

In October 1917 the Canadian Corps moved to the Ypres Salient in Belgium for the assault on Passchendaele. Artillery shells and heavy rains had turned the battlefield into a wasteland of mud, swamp and water-filled shell holes. The Canadians suffered 15,000 casualties in the operation with over 3,000 men killed and 1,000 missing and presumed… Read More »

Smith, Charles Henry

Charles Henry Smith was one of three brothers, the oldest of seven sons of Charles Alexander Smith of Keewatin, Ontario to enlist during the Great War. Charles Henry Smith served with the U.S. Army while his brothers John Wesley Smith and Leonard Edward Smith served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Charles Henry was Charles Smith’s… Read More »

LaRiviere, Gedeon Joseph

Gedeon Joseph LaRiviere was born on 10 July 1887 in Saint Marcel, L’Islet, Quebec. His parents were Gedeon and Marie Louise (née Messier) LaRiviere who had married in 1884 in Saint Marcel where their families farmed. Three children were born to the couple in Quebec, Joseph Antoine (1885-1885), Marie Louise (1886-1969), and Joseph. By the… Read More »

Nycz, Jan

John (Jan) Nycz was born on 21 March 1893 in Poland. While in Poland he married Anna Juzefczyk. Known children born to the couple were Mary, Helen, Josephina, Jennie, John and Nietek. According to his obituary, John served during WW1. He immigrated to Canada in 1929, settling in Kenora where he found work with the… Read More »

White, William Gregory

Birth date: William was born in Aylmer, Ontario, September 6th, 1896 to William Robert White (born October 1, 1869, Elgin County, Ontario) and Ethel Elizabeth Gregory (born November 4, 1870, Belmont, Middlesex, Ontario). They were married in Aylmer, Ontario June 1, 1893. William is descended from and related to historic families in early Ontario and… Read More »