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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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According to his attestation papers Hiram Primrose was born on 15 September 1885 in Deseronto, Ontario*. His father George Henry Alexander Primrose was from London, England while his mother Emily Jane Haynes was from Kaladar, Ontario. The couple married in 1876 in the township of Barrie where George had been farming. Children born to the… Read More »
Henry Edmund Parsons was born 2 January 1887 in Rat Portage, Ontario. His parents were Alfred Joseph Parsons and Florence Nightingale Johnstone. Alfred and Florence were both born in Quebec, Alfred in Huntingdon and his wife in Sorel. They were married in Montreal in October 1883 and their first child, Beatrice, was born the following… Read More »
According to his attestation papers Herbert Thomas Britten was born on 29 August 1886 in Bletchley, Buckingham, England. Elsewhere in his service record his birth place was given as Fenny Stratford, a small community on the outskirts of Bletchley. His father Edward Britten was from Lechampstead in Buckingham, while his mother Ada Maria Herbert was… Read More »
Timothy Dwight Ruggles was born on 11 February 1886 in Paradise, Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He was the second child of Charles Frederick and Emily Cecelia (née Gibson) Ruggles who had married in Bridgetown in 1883. Timothy had an older sister Annie Lillian and three younger siblings Frances Elizabeth, Stephen Sneden, and Charles Frederick. Timothy signed… Read More »
Charles Robert Fuller (known as Robert) was born on 17 November 1870 in Wantage, Berkshire, England. He was the oldest child and only son of Charles and Mary Ann Fuller. His sisters were: Harriet (b. 1873), Emmeline (b. 1877), Rose (b. 1879), Mary (b. 1882), Beatrice (b. 1885), Lillian (b. 1888), and Esther (b. 1890)…. Read More »
Frederick George Chandler was born on 16 September 1888 in Sydenham, Lewisham in London, England. His father James Chandler, a gas fitter, was from Brighton in Sussex while his mother Hannah Keys was from Dover in Kent. The couple had married during the first quarter of 1869 in the registration district of Dover. Their first… Read More »
John Middleton Fawcett was born on 3 December 1889 in Toronto, Ontario, birth date confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father William Fawcett was from the Pickering, Ontario area where he had been farming and his mother Sarah Ann Richards was from Darlington. The couple married on 26 December 1888 in Pickering. At the… Read More »
Captain Philip McRitchie, MC, was born on 28 July 1881 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the son of Donald McRitchie and Anna McLeod. He was one of at least twelve children, seven boys and five girls, born between 1861 and 1881. By the 1890s his family had moved to the town of Rat Portage (later… Read More »
Ernest Thomas Leavesley was born on 13 July 1883 in Basford, a suburb in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. His father Charles Leavesley was from Newton Regis in Warwickshire while his mother Hannah Mee was from Basford where the couple married in 1874. Ernest had an older sister Sarah and a younger brother Charles. Charles Sr first… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, Louis Anselius Martinus Oberg was born on 8 February 1876 in Randers, Denmark. Prior to immigrating to Canada around 1909 he had been living in Sweden where, according to his WW1 service record, he had served with the Västernanland Regiment from 1892 to 1898. At some point he had married… Read More »
