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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private John Major enlisted in June 1916 and served in France with the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion. He suffered from health problems for much of his time overseas and he was invalided to Canada in July 1919. John was Ojibway and a member of the Northwest Angle First Nations band in northwestern Ontario. According to… Read More »
Hugh Charles Walker was born on 27 September 1897 in Carman, Manitoba. His parents were William Walker and Charlotte Brown, both from Ontario. By the time of the birth of their first son William John in 1883, they were living in Carman where William Sr worked as a carpenter. Other children born in Carman were… Read More »
Private Arthur Edwin Clarkson enlisted in the first Canadian contingent in September 1914, at age 21. He arrived in France in February 1915 and died two months later at the Second Battle of Ypres. Arthur was born on 24 May 1893 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the oldest son of Sarah Ann (Annie) Clarkson. In 1898… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, Norris Bamford was born on 5 November 1892 in Fort Coulonge, Quebec. Located on the north side of the Ottawa River in Quebec, Fort Coulonge is about 120 kilometres northwest of Ottawa/Hull. Norris’ father was Edward Bamford who had immigrated to Canada from England as a child according to census… Read More »
Private Lawrence Clutterbuck enlisted in Calgary in February 1915, at age 17, and served in France and Belgium with the 18th Battalion and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He suffered shell shock and shell gas poisoning but he recovered and returned home in June 1919. Lawrence was the son of Austin Clutterbuck and Ruth Land… Read More »
According to his attestation papers Ralph Harris was born on 14 February 1876 in London, England. A birth record was not found. Using the name of Roland Ralph McClude, Ralph married Lydia Collier during the 3rd quarter of 1893 in the registration district of Clutton in Somerset. Lydia, the daughter of William and Charlotte (née… Read More »
Private Oscar Wulff was the son of Charles and Helen Wulff of Glasgow, Scotland. Charles was born in Hamburg, Germany and Helen in Scotland. They were married in 1883. Oscar was born in Glasgow in 1892 and he had at least four older siblings: Ella (1885), Matilda (1886), Carl (1888) and Margaret “Daisy” (1890). His… Read More »
Ivan Lucas Kendall was born on 9 May 1890 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. His father William Glanfield Kendall was from Rettendon, Essex, England. At age twenty-three William had immigrated to Canada, first living in Stratford, Ontario where he worked for the Grand Trunk Railway before moving to Winnipeg in 1882… Read More »
Donald Alexander Macintosh was born on 27 April 1895 in Toronto, Ontario. His father John Alexander Macintosh, a lawyer, was from Vankleek Hill, Ontario. He was called to the bar in 1884 and in Cornwall became a partner in the firm of MacDonald and Macintosh founded by Ontario’s first premier John Sandfield MacDonald. The firm… Read More »
Harry Raymond Stewart was born on 9 March 1894 in the township of Bristol in Pontiac, Quebec. His father Ephraim Stewart was from Bristol while his mother Emma Way was from nearby Shawville, both families farmers. The couple married on 12 August 1891 in Ottawa, the city about 75 kilometres east of Bristol. The next… Read More »
