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

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Gray, Colin Campbell

Sapper Colin Campbell Gray enlisted in March 1917 and served with the Canadian Railway Troops in the UK, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in May 1919. Colin was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 4 June 1887. His parents were Captain John Gray, a mariner, and Mary Campbell. Six of his brothers and sisters… Read More »

Lapworth, George Thomas

George Thomas Lapworth was born 11 August 1889 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England to George Lapworth and Mary Jane (West) Lapworth. He was baptized at St. Andrew’s Church in Rugby on 30 August 1889. In the 1891 England Census, Mary Jane was listed as a widow ‘living on means’ with her son, George and two boarders… Read More »

Barnes, Clarence Wesley

Birth date and location: Clarence Wesley Barnes was born in Kenora, Ontario February 7, 1894, the eldest of four children.       Names of parents and siblings: John Barnes and Emma Ann Bell married in Kenora, District of Rainy River on June 20, 1893. Emma was the daughter of Julia A. Parliament and Albert… Read More »

Brown, William Thomas

Private William Thomas Brown enlisted underage when he was 16 years old and he served for more than four years in Canada, England, France, Belgium and Germany. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in May 1919. William was the oldest son of Joseph Brown and Mary Robinson of Kenora,… Read More »

Green, John Bennett

John Bennett Green was born in Morpeth, Northumberland,  England on January 12, 1893.   John was the son of David Green and Rachael (Emily) Bennett.   David and Rachael (Emily) also had  5 daughters.   His sisters were Mrs. W. F. Collings, Elfreda (Mrs. A. Beckworth), Mrs. J. R. Cherry, Edith and Mrs. F. Donahoe…. Read More »

Proutt, William

William Proutt was born on 25 April 1895 in the RM of Rosedale in the Neepawa/Birnie area in Manitoba where his family farmed. His father William Proutt Sr was born in Ontario, living and farming in the Medonte, Simcoe area. Around 1872 he married Ellen Thompson, her family also farming in the area. Together William… Read More »

Tarris, Harold Alton

Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts Harold Alton Tarris was born on 6 June 1897 in Oxford Junction, Nova Scotia. His parents Eli Tarris and Florence Killam were both from New Brunswick, Eli from Hillsborough and Florence from Salisbury. The couple married on 13 March 1891 in nearby Moncton. Harold had… Read More »

Smith, Garfield

Garfield Smith was born on 30 August 1885 at Gypsum Mines, South Cayuga, Halimand, Ontario. His parents William Smith, the son of German immigrants, and Emeline Matilda Armstrong were both living in the Township of North Cayuga, Ontario at the time of their marriage on 11 May 1870 in Dunnville. Over the years the family… Read More »

Rideout, Joseph Harding

Private Joseph Harding Rideout enlisted in September 1915 and served overseas for three years, about half that time with the Royal Canadian Regiment. He was wounded at the Somme but he survived the war and returned home in March 1919. Joseph was the only son of Harding Rideout and his first wife Lydia Dolen. Harding… Read More »