Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Collins, H I

The name H I Collins appears on the Lake of the Woods Milling Company Roll of Honour as one of the fallen in WW1 from the area. His identity and service could not be confirmed.  

Lohman, Stewart Henry

Lance Corporal Stewart Henry Lohman enlisted in December 1914 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Somme in October 1916 and invalided to Canada the following spring. Stewart was born on 10 May 1892 in San Francisco, California. His parents were John Benjamin Lohman and Susan Burgess… Read More »

Meyin, James W

The name of James W Meyin appeared in the 12 August 1914 edition of the Kenora Miner and News as one of the new volunteers for the war. His identity nor service could be confirmed.  

Currie, William Webster

The middle child of the family, William Webster Currie was born on 25 December 1889 in Markdale, Grey South, Ontario. His father Robert Brydon Currie was from Dumfries, Ontario while his mother Margaret Webster had been born in Clatt, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The couple had married in 1884 in Nichol in the district of Wellington… Read More »

Thomas, George

Private George Thomas was a fisherman living on Lake of the Woods when he was called up for service in May 1918. He spent 14 months in Great Britain and returned home in the fall of 1919. George was born on 15 May 1893, either at Sabaskosing on Lake of the Woods or in the… Read More »

McDiarmid, Findlay Howard

Private Findlay Howard McDiarmid enlisted in October 1915 and served in France and Belgium with a field ambulance unit. He was killed by an artillery shell in November 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele. Howard was the oldest son of James McDiarmid and Ida McNabb of Kamloops, British Columbia. James was a carpenter originally from… Read More »

Mathias, Leonard Stewart

Leonard Stewart Mathias was one of the first contingent volunteers from Kenora. His name was among a list of 24 local men published in the Kenora newspaper on Aug. 12, 1914 who had passed medical exams for service after answering an Aug. 9 call for volunteers from the 98th (Rainy River and Kenora) Regiment. Leonard… Read More »

Wilcox, Sydney Charles

Sydney Charles Wilcox was born on 26 July 1883 in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia. His father Charles Smith Wilcox was from Windsor while his mother Emma Gertrude Thom was from Quebec City where the couple married in 1880. Returning to Windsor, Charles and his brother George were both hardware merchants. Children born to the family… Read More »

Symonds, Maitland Rendal

Maitland Rendal Symonds was born on 24 November 1893 in Goderich, Ontario. His father Charles Symonds was born in London, England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a child. His mother Mary Frances Hart was from Ashfield, Ontario where the couple married on 11 June 1891. In the early years the family… Read More »

Petty, Thomas

Private Thomas Petty enlisted in December 1915 and served overseas for more than three years. After the war he lived in England for a year before returning to Canada. Thomas was the son of Thomas Harker Petty and Sarah Pybus of Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, England. Thomas Harker and Sarah were both born in Yorkshire. They were… Read More »