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

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Keller, Daniel Frank

Corporal Daniel Frank Keller served in the U.S. army for eleven years before moving to Canada. He signed up with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in January 1917, at age 44, and he was discharged about seven weeks later for medical reasons. Daniel was born on 5 May 1872 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. His parents,… Read More »

Windsor, Walter Pat

Walter Cecil Windsor was born on 29 December 1900 in Rat Portage (now Kenora) Ontario. His mother was 16 year old Mary Jane Windsor of Pendleton, Ontario. She gave him the nickname ‘Paddy’ because of the sound his feet made as he ‘padded’ down the hall to see her as she lay ill in bed…. Read More »

Pollock, Rollo Livingston

Rollo Livingston Pollock was born on 12 December 1885 in Palmerston, Ontario. His father John Livingston Pollock was from Scotland while his mother Sarah Jane (Jennie) Elliot was from England, both immigrating to Canada in their youth. The couple married on 21 April 1885 in nearby Listowel, John’s occupation given as flax mill manager at… Read More »

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 »

Thompson, William Richmond

Private William Richmond Thompson was one of three brothers from Saskatchewan who served in the First World War. William and his younger brother Clifford survived the war but their oldest brother Robert died in September 1916 at the Somme. William was born on 6 May 1883 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were William Richmond Thompson… Read More »

LaRocque, Joseph Adolphus

Joseph Adolphus LaRocque was born on 17 November 1887 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His parents Augustin LaRocque and Henriette Boivin had married on 14 April 1873 in Ottawa, Ontario. Augustin had previously married Marie Clare Rochon in St Eustache, Quebec in 1866 but sadly she died in 1872 in Ottawa, the couple childless. Augustin and Henriette… Read More »

Sparks, William Thomas

Corporal William Thomas Sparks enlisted in December 1914 and served in England, France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and he spent over a year recovering in hospitals and convalescent centres. William was the son of Thomas George Sparks (Sparkes) and Eliza Mackler of West Ham, London, England…. Read More »

Fuller, Charles Herbert

The only son and first born child of Charles Robert  and Beatrice (Litten) Fuller, Charles Herbert Fuller was on born 15 August 1894 in Reading, Berkshire, England, registration district of Bradfield. His father was from Wantage, Berkshire while his mother was from Charleton, Oxfordshire. The couple had married during the first quarter of 1894 in the… Read More »

Spence, Robert

Robert Spence was born on 3 November 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents Robert Spence and Elizabeth Park Johnston were both from the Orkneys in Scotland, marrying on 21 June 1888 in Burray, South Ronaldshay. At the time Robert, a widower, was working as a fisherman. Later that year… Read More »

Snider, Norman Wray

Norman Wray Snider was born on 30 July 1898 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were merchant John Henry Snider and Mary Ellen Dulmadge. Siblings included Florence May (1890-1976), Pearl (1892- ?), Albert (1895-1898) and Fern(1905-1990). Norman was attending the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto when he enlisted with the Canadian… Read More »