These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Lance Corporal Albert Ernest Wright enlisted in December 1916 and served with the 44th Battalion in England, France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in June 1919. Albert was born in Rat Portage, Ontario on 14 August 1890. His father, Oliver James Wright, was from Lavenham, Suffolk, England and he had immigrated to Canada in… Read More »
Found on the passenger list for the Athenia, 17 year old Leonard Herbert Lambley arrived in Canada on 20 August 1906. Occupation given as farm labourer, according to the record he had been sent to Canada by his father. He was next found in Tacoma, Washington signing a Declaration of Intention on 25 November 1910… Read More »
Martin Forbes Allen was born on 28 October 1889 in the village of Farewell, Township of Arthur in Wellington North, Ontario. His parents were William and Marjory (née McIntosh) Allen. Over the years William worked as a shopkeeper, farmer, and carpenter/builder. Children born to the family were Ellen Jane (1879-1879), Lodvick Richard (1881-1925), Rachel William… Read More »
Pilot Cadet Archibald Theodoric Broome joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1918 and served in Canada for nine months. After the war he moved to Cuba where he lived for more than thirty years. Archibald was born in Foresters Falls, Ross Township, Renfrew County, Ontario. He was the oldest son of Thomas Broome and… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, John Freeman* was born on 20 August 1889 in Rome, Iowa, USA. Found in the 1911 Canada census, it showed that John had immigrated to Canada in 1910, settling in Keewatin, Ontario. At that time his occupation was general labourer and he was a lodger at 82 Front Street. John… Read More »
Driver Alexander Sturrock Fearn joined the Canadian Army Service Corps in December 1915, at age 25. He served overseas for three years and returned to Canada in May 1919. Alexander was born on 18 September 1890 in the parish of Monikie in Forfarshire, Scotland. His mother, Annie Wilson Fearn, was 21 years old at the… Read More »
William Whitehead Coltman was born on 9 February 1891 in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. His father John Coltman, a wool packer, was from Buchlyvie while his mother Ann Hutton was from the Dunmore-Airth area, both in Stirlingshire. The couple married on 26 November 1896 in Alloa. Their first child, John was born the next year, followed… Read More »
Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts James Arthur Kinney was born in 1877 on Manitoulin Island, Algoma, Ontario. Both of his parents James Kinney and Malina Johnson were from Prince Edward County in Ontario, the couple marrying on 11 February 1863 in Athol. At the time of the 1871 census the… Read More »
Shortly after Britain declared war in August 1914 the Canadian government proposed raising an Expeditionary Force to send overseas. By late September a contingent of 32,000 volunteers had been assembled at the new military camp in Valcartier, Quebec. Two thirds of the men in this 1st Canadian Contingent were born in the British Isles including… Read More »
Isak Albert Wikström was born on 9 August 1888 in Bälinge, NederluleГҐ in Norrbotten, Sweden. Bälinge is in northern Sweden close to the Finland border. His parents Nils Petter Wikström and Maria Langström were both from the area, marrying on 19 October 1873 in Bälinge. In the various Swedish records Nils’ occupation was given as… Read More »