Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Hunter, James

James Hunter was born on 5 December 1893 in Dailly, Ayrshire in Scotland. His father James Hunter, coal miner, was from Dailly as was his mother Elizabeth Jones. The couple had married on 2 August 1889 in Dailly. The next year they gave birth to their first child, daughter Rosina, followed by daughter Margaret (Maggie)… Read More »

Parfitt, Arthur Robert

Arthur Robert Parfitt was born on 29 August 1894 in London, England.  He was the youngest child of Fred Parfitt and Elizabeth Woodhouse. Siblings included: Frederick John (b. 1882; served with British Army in WW1), Catherine Emma (1884-1972; married Edwin Thomas Barnard); William Joseph  (1886 – 1963); Agnes Elizabeth (1887-1935; married Albert Deverell); Minnie Jessie… Read More »

Baker, Claude Cleveland

Claude Cleveland Baker was born on 29 June 1881 in Athol, Cumberland in Nova Scotia. His parents Hance Wilson Baker and Angelina Harriet Cleveland had married in 1860 and farmed in the Maccan district in Cumberland. Known children born to the couple were Frank Benton (abt 1862), Florence May (1864), Emma (abt 1865), Harry Wilson… Read More »

Johnston, Christina Margaret

Christina Margaret Johnston was born on 3 July 1888 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents John Dickinson Johnston and Ellen Brydon married on 6 March 1878 in Guelph Township, Ontario. After giving birth to children Helen and William the family had moved to Winnipeg by 1882. They gave birth to daughter Laura that year followed by… Read More »

Bullen, John Crellin

Private John Crellin Bullen was the only son of John Bullen and Marian Crellin of Cheshire, England. His parents were both born in Liverpool and they were married there in 1889. They had two daughters, Mary Elizabeth (1890) and Grace Emily (1893). John, their third and youngest child, was born in January 1900 in Seacombe,… Read More »

Heldahl, Edwin Ole

Illness and disease caused many casualties in the First World War and some soldiers died even before they went overseas. Private Edwin Heldahl enlisted with Lord Strathcona’s Horse in May 1917 and he died one year later while still training in Canada. Edwin was the oldest son of Ole Olsen Heldahl and Johana/Johanne Christina Pederson… Read More »

Smith, Arthur

Family and Early Life: Arthur  was born in the Parish of Great Glen, Town of Leicester, County of Leicestershire, England on October 10, 1878. He was the son of Alfred Smith and Harriet Tailby King. The family was recorded in Rawmarsh, Yorkshire in the 1881 British census, when Alfred was a railway porter. For the… Read More »

Barraclough, John Alfred

John Alfred Barraclough was born on 13 April 1884 in Elland, Halifax, Yorkshire in England. His parents David Barraclough, an insurance agent, and Martha Thompson were both from Yorkshire, their marriage registered during the 3rd quarter of 1878 in Halifax, Yorkshire. Children born to the couple were Annie (1879), James Herbert (1882), John Alfred, Samuel… Read More »

Wilson, Harry

Private Harry Wilson served overseas for two years, most of that time in France and Belgium with the 8th Battalion. He was wounded twice, at the Battle of Passchendaele and at Amiens, but he survived the war and returned to Canada in May 1919. Harry was the oldest son of Henry Wilson and Edith Alma… Read More »