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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Harry John Goldthorpe enlisted in January 1916 and served overseas for about two years. He was wounded at the Somme but he survived the war and returned to Canada in July 1918. Harry was the son of Harry John Goldthorpe Sr. and Margaret Sheehan. He was born on 20 September 1877, possibly in Montreal,… Read More »
Sergeant George Ross Thompson, known to his friends and family as Smokey, was an original member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, enlisting with them in August 1914 when they were first organized. After surviving almost four years of war Sergeant Thompson was killed in action on 28 September 1918, 44 days before the Armistice…. Read More »
According to his attestation papers Abraham (Abie) Coppleman was born on 14 April 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (A delayed Manitoba birth registration from 1899 gave his date of birth as 15 May 1896 while his British Columbia death record recorded it as 14 April 1896.) Both of his parents, Samuel Coppleman and Maggie Rosen, were… Read More »
Starting back in August of 1914, the Kenora Miner and News published a number of articles listing the names of volunteers for the 1st Contingent that were on their way to Valcartier in Quebec to enlist. On the list was a fellow by the name of D. Hughes. His identity could not be confirmed.
Corporal Frank Joseph Colpman enlisted with an artillery unit in October 1915 and served overseas for more than three years. He returned to Canada in May 1919 with a war bride. Frank was the oldest son of Arthur White Colpman and Mabel Mary Pollard. Arthur was born in 1859 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England and he… Read More »
Stanley Carleton Belyea was born on 24 April 1894 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Allan and Annie (née Bogle) Belyea who were from Greenwich, Kings County, New Brunswick. Allan’s occupation was given as wooden boat maker at the time of the marriage. Sometime after the birth of their first son… Read More »
Andrew Thomas Jones was born on 18 December 1871 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His parents were Edward Jones and Mary Ann Powell. Siblings included Edward Joseph (b. 1870), Ellen Mary (b. 1874) and Alfred James (b. 1877). Andrew enlisted in the British forces as a young man and took part in several military campaigns throughout… Read More »
Benjamin Bassett was born on 10 September 1885 in the city of Waterford in Ireland. His father George Walter Bassett, a wine merchant, was from Waterford, while his mother Sarah Jane Caldbeck was from County Wexford. The couple had married in Waterford in 1877. Children born to the family were George Thomas (1878), Frederick Richard… Read More »
Lance Corporal Francis Henry Lenton enlisted in August 1915 and served overseas for three years in England, France, Belgium and Germany. He returned to Canada in June 1919. Francis (Frank) was the oldest son of Frederick Henry Lenton and Marion Eliza Smith of Selkirk, Manitoba. His parents were both born in England, Fred in Hampstead,… Read More »
According to his obituary, Edouard Perreault (dit Morin) was born on 11 June 1867 in Saint Anne des Chenes, Manitoba (with the citation of SB-Rozyk p 186 B-52, Gail Morin gives a birth date of 11 June 1870). His grandfather, Jean Baptiste Perreault (dit Morin), was born in Quebec where he married Marie Ducharme, also… Read More »
