Kenora Great War Project

 

You can also view an Alphabetical List

The People

soldier_photobar

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

Search by name, or filter the search results using the list of options below.

Hansen, Hans Edward

Private Hans Edward Hansen was one of four brothers from Keewatin, Ontario who served in the First World War. Hans was the oldest son of Nils (Nels) Julius Hansen and his wife Ellen Nilson. Nils and Ellen both immigrated to Canada in the 1880s, Nils from Norway and Ellen from Sweden. They were married in… Read More »

Hudec, Andrew

The son of Miclas and Julia (née Durta) Hudec, Andrew Hudec was born on 9 June 1900 in Hornykamenec, Nitoa in Czechoslovakia and served during WW1, details unknown. He immigrated to Canada in 1927, settling in Kenora, Ontario where he found work with the Ontario Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company. On 2 September 1933, in… Read More »

Frim, James

Private James Frim (also known as Jim Flim) enlisted in Dryden, Ontario in the spring of 1916 and served in France for ten months before becoming seriously ill. He was invalided back to Canada and he passed away in June 1921. James was born around 1888 in Lac Seul, northern Ontario, the son of Annie… Read More »

McRitchie, Roderick

Company Quarter-Master Sergeant Roderick McRitchie was the son of Donald McRitchie and Anna McLeod of Kenora, Ontario. He was born on 10 October 1868 in Victoria County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and he had at least six brothers and five sisters. His family moved to Ontario in the 1890s and settled in Rat Portage (later… Read More »

Paul, John

Corporal John Paul enlisted with the 52nd Battalion and served in France and Belgium for almost three years. He was wounded at the Vimy front in April 1917 but he survived the war and returned to Canada in March 1919. John was born on 23 May 1896 in Victoria Harbour, Simcoe County, Ontario. His parents… Read More »

Walker, William John

William John Walker  was born on 30 June 1886, the son of Joseph and Mary Walker of Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, Ireland. He had a younger brother Edward, born about 1890. William’s father was listed as a gardner in the 1901 Ireland census, the family living in Corcreedy, Fivemiletown. Before immigration William had been working as… Read More »

Beaudoin, George

George Beaudoin was born 20 February 1881 in St. Tite, Quebec (a village north of Trois Rivieres). His parents were Prosper Beaudoin and Rosa Ann Thiffault. Siblings included Napoleon (b. 1870), Noemie (b. 1874), Emma (b. 1875), Josephat (b. 1886), Marie Louise (b. 1888), Bernadette (b. 1889) and Jean Baptiste ((b. 1895). George spent his… Read More »

Bateson, George Theodore

Private George Theodore Bateson was the son of John Hope Bateson and Agnes Victoria (nee Bateson) of Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota. John and Agnes were of Scottish and Irish ancestry and they were both born in Victoria County, Ontario. They were married in 1882 in Somerville Township, Victoria County. George was born on 27… Read More »

Rushton, Percy Frank

Percival Frank Rushton was born on 27  March 1896 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. His father Walter and mother Letitia (née Booth) Rushton had married in Worcester in 1894. While in England Walter’s occupation on the censuses was given as ‘China Printer Earth’. There were four children in the Rushton family, Ernest (b 1895), Percy Frank… Read More »

Rance, Thomas Francis

Acting Sergeant Thomas Francis Rance was the oldest son of Charles Carmichael Rance and Jennet Fair Jackson of Clinton, Huron County, Ontario. Charles was a merchant tailor and he and his wife were both born in Huron County, They were married in Clinton in 1887 and Thomas was born there on 18 September 1888. He… Read More »