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Dowds, James

James Dowds was born on 28 February 1899 in Belfast, Ireland. His parents, James Dowds and Louisa Hall had married in 1882. They had three other children: Hugh (1882-1955), Margaret (1887-1980), and Agnes (b. 1894). According to his application for Legion membership, James enlisted for service in WW1 in February 1915. He served with the… Read More »

Masterton, Alexander

Alexander Masterton was born on 2 February 1888 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father John Masterton, a railway labourer, was from Carnwath while his mother Barbara Walkinshaw was from Carlops, Peeblesshire. The couple married on 21 January 1880 in Carnwath. Barbara had given birth to daughter Annie Walkinshaw in 1878 in Carnwath, Annie later assuming… Read More »

Nairn, Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Nairn was born on  19 August 1899  in Keewatin, Ontario, a small community just west of Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). In his early years he went by the name of Tennyson but after the war he  switched to Alfred. His father Robert Nairn was from Netherhill, Dunlop, Ayrshire in Scotland and had… Read More »

Norquay, Donald

Donald Norquay was born on 28 November 1886 in Moose Factory, Ontario. His father Sutherland Norquay was from Walls and Flotta in the Orkney Islands while his mother Elizabeth McBean was from Moose Factory, her father also a Scottish immigrant. As was Elizabeth’s father, it is likely that Sutherland immigrated to Canada/Moose Factory as an… Read More »

Muggaberg, Walter George

Private Walter George Muggaberg was the son of Julius Muggaberg Jr. and Margaret Ann Park. Julius was likely born in the Northwest Territories or in the Red River Settlement, which became part of Manitoba. His father was from Norway and his mother was Scottish Métis. By 1881 his family had moved to Rat Portage, Ontario…. Read More »

Mulholland, William Robert

William Robert Mulholland was born on 11 May 1897 in the RM of South Norfolk, Manitoba where the family farmed. His father George Wallace Mulholland was from the Branchton, Ontario area while his mother Isabella Moore Wilson was from Nottingham, England. The couple had married in Winnipeg in 1884 where they later gave birth to… Read More »

Morley, Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen Morley was born on 30 April 1899 in Virden, Manitoba. His parents Samuel Edward Morley and Mary Jane Williams, both of their families farming in nearby Watt, had married in Bracebridge, Ontario on 16 August 1881. The couple were to farm in Watt where children Robert Edward (1882), Catherine Ann (1884), Hannah Jane… Read More »

Dunn, St. Clair

Captain St. Clair Dunn was a practising physician when he was commissioned as an officer in the spring of 1916. He went overseas that fall and arrived in France a year later. St. Clair was killed in action near the Vimy front in March 1918. St. Clair was the son of Robert Dunn and Charlotte… Read More »

Muggaberg, Thomas

Private Thomas Muggaberg was the youngest son of Julius Muggaberg and Isabella (Elizabeth) Sinclair. Julius was born in Norway and immigrated to Canada (British North America) when he was in his twenties. Isabella was Scottish Métis and born in the Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba. Julius and Isabella were married in 1860… Read More »

English, Roy Wilfred

Roy Wilfred English was born on 15 May 1893 in Minnesota, United States of America. His father Robert Rose English was from Ireland, marrying Ann McNabb in 1871 in Chatsworth, Holland Township in Grey County, Ontario. The couple gave birth to son Richard John in 1874 but sadly Ann passed away in 1876, with Richard… Read More »