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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Basil Reynolds was born on 26 November 1892 in Stratford, Ontario, birth registered by his father on December 17th (Archives of Ontario Series MS929 Reel 112). Both of his parents, Dominic Daniel Reynolds and Catherine Patricia Hanlon, were first generation Canadians of Irish descent, born in the Township of Clinton. According to the birth record… Read More »
Lance Corporal Arthur Bohn Thompson was the son of Benjamin Franklin ‘Frank’ Thompson and Augusta Bohn. He was born on 22 February 1887 in the town of Rat Portage in northwestern Ontario. He had an older sister Sarah (Sadie) and two younger brothers, John (1888) and William Stanley (1890). All three boys were born in… Read More »
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 »
Birth date and location: Joseph James Tetroe was born in Tyndall, Manitoba, on July 18, 1886. His parents were Joseph (born about 1845, U.S.A.) and Josephine Tetroe (born in the U.S.A. December 28, 1859). Early life: Throughout the 1901, 1906 and 1911 Canadian Census Lists, Joseph, Josephine and their children were living in… Read More »
Bombardier Gordon Milford Hudson was called up in April 1918 and served in Canada for a year. After the war he had a long and successful career in curling and he was inducted into both the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Gordon was the older of two sons… Read More »
Lance Corporal Arthur Lloyd Cornwell enlisted in the spring of 1917 and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps for two years. He died on illness in England in February 1919, most likely a casualty of the influenza pandemic. Arthur was the oldest son of John Leslie Cornwell and Henrietta Stone of Kenora, Ontario. John and… Read More »
Private Horace John Genge was born on 6 October 1895 in Rat Portage, Ontario. His father, George Alexander Genge, was born Syracuse, New York and his mother, Isabella Jane Jobb, in Wingham, Ontario. George and Isabella were married in Brandon, Manitoba in 1891. Their first two children were born in Brandon: Thomas (1892) and Mary… Read More »
Private John Andrew Smith enlisted in March 1916 and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion. During the Second World War he joined the Veterans’ Guard. John was born in Quebec, sometime between about 1880 and 1888, and moved to northwestern Ontario as a young man. He was married in the… Read More »
Private Mark Sexsmith and his brother Richard Sexsmith enlisted in 1916 and they both served in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion. They died three days apart in October 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele. Mark was the son of Joseph Sexsmith and Emily Georgina Orr of Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. Joseph and… Read More »
Frederick George Simpson was born on 01 December 1898 in Swidon, Wiltshire, England. His parents were Fred Simpson and Eliza Henams. In 1904 the family immigrated to Canada and settled in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. Another son, Harry, was born in 1905. By the 1911 Canadian census the family was living just outside Kenora… Read More »
