Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Frisbie, Clayton Goodwin

Private Clayton Goodwin Frisbie was born in Canada and living in the U.S. when the war started. He enlisted in Vancouver in 1916 and served overseas for two years, most of that time as a machine gunner. Clayton was the son of George Clayton Frisbie and Helen McQueen of Portland, Oregon. George was born in… Read More »

Atkinson, William Henry

Although he gave his birth place as Ottawa and year of birth as 1874  on his attestation papers, William Henry Atkinson was probably born on 6 November 1878 in Arnprior, Ontario. His father John Robert Atkinson had been born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, immigrating around 1863, while his mother Eva Margaret Windsor was from Grand River,… Read More »

Jorgenson, Jacob

Private Jacob Jorgenson was the oldest of five brothers who enlisted for service in the First World War. The five boys – Jacob, Martin, John,  Gustave and Thomas – came from a large family in Whitemouth, Manitoba. Martin was killed in France in June 1917 but the other four brothers survived and returned home after… Read More »

Graham, Angus Archibald Buchanan

Angus Archibald Buchanan Graham was born on 7 September 1873 in the District of High Church, Glasgow, Scotland. His parents John Graham, carter, and Elizabeth McCaffer had married 22 November 1861 in High Church. Angus’s grandparents were David and Helen (Buchanan) Graham and Duncan and Margaret (Campbell) McCaffer. The 1881 Scotland census found Angus, occupation given… Read More »

Galloway, William Joseph Osgoode

William Joseph Osgoode Galloway was born on 3 April 1887 in Arthur, Wellington, Ontario. His parents were Cyrus and Janet Scott (Small) Galloway who had married on 14 December 1881 in Arthur. William had four brothers, Cyrus Leslie, Hubert Scott, Cecil Charles, and Norman Lloyd, and a younger sister, Janet (Jennie) Florence. For both the 1881… 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 »

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 »

Dalmer, Ernest Alexander

Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts Ernest Alexander Dalmer was born on 21 September 1870 in Liverpool, Lancashire in England. His father Frederick William George Theodore Dalmer, a tinsmith, was from Prussia while his mother Elizabeth Sabrina Haywood was from Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The couple married on 1 July 1861 in… Read More »

Conn, William Curle

Private William Curle Conn was called up in December 1917 and served for a short time in the Royal Air Force. He was discharged for medical reasons in July 1918. William was born on 10 March 1890 in the village of Douglas, Manitoba. His parents, Robert Conn and Mary Ellen Curle, were both born in… Read More »

Lough, Russell Emerson

According to his attestation papers, Russell Emerson Lough was born on 12 February 1895 in Buckingham, Quebec. His parents John Robert and Helen (Nellie) (née Storey) Lough had married on 27 November 1889 in Buckingham although neither were of French Canadian descent. It appears that their first child, George Garfield, born in 1891, died less… Read More »