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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private George Melvin Pollard signed up with the 94th Battalion in January 1916. He was wounded at the Somme and he suffered from illness for much of his time overseas, but he survived the war and returned to Canada in March 1919. George was born on 26 September 1880 in Moncton, New Brunswick. He moved… Read More »
Private Stanley Cresswell Browne was called up in March 1918 and served for ten months in Canada and Great Britain. He was discharged for medical reasons in January 1919. Stanley was the only child of Harry Clive Browne and Sarah Emily Cresswell. Harry was born in Highgate, London, England and Sarah in Kelvedon Hatch, Essex…. Read More »
Sergeant Nels Austin Brynelson was the son of Nels and Augusta Brynelson of Starbuck, Manitoba. His parents were both born in Norway and immigrated to Canada in the mid-1880s. They settled in northwestern Ontario where Nels (Sr) became a section foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He worked at several railroad stations just east of… Read More »
Lieutenant Henry Lloyd Ingram enlisted in March 1916, at age 44, and served for three years in Canada and Great Britain. He lived in England after the war and died there in 1929, at age 58. Henry was born on 18 July 1871 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the son of Henry Thomas Ingram and Sarah… Read More »
Harold Edward Hamill was born 03 October 1897 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. He was the oldest son of Edward Hamill and Amy Jennings. His siblings were Lillian, Kathleen, William and Charles. His father died in 1909, the same year that Charles was born. Harold received his education in Kenora and entered service with the… Read More »
Along with his twin brother Jay Earle Wilson, Ray Holland Wilson was born on 15 September 1889 in Keewatin, Ontario. His father Thomas Alexander Wilson, a teacher at the time of the boys’ births, was from Bell’s Corner, Minot, Wellington North, Ontario while his mother Sarah Isabella Holland was from Milton, Iowa where the couple… Read More »
Lieutenant George Gillespie Creighton arrived in France in February 1916 and four months later he was seriously injured in an accident. He was invalided to Canada in December and he died in a drowning accident in July 1917. George was the son of William Travers Creighton and Jean Menzies Gillespie of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jean was… Read More »
Johan (John) Alfred Bergström was born on 8 March 1886 in Bellvik in the parish of Dorotea in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. His parents Olof Johan (Ole) Bergström and Sigrid Mathilda Östlund were both from Dorotea, marrying on 5 July 1885. John was their first born child, with his younger siblings born in Sweden being… Read More »
(Thomas) Edmund Charles Oldfin was born on 19 June 1891 in Kingston, Ontario. His father John William Oldfin and mother Honoria Nora O’Connor, both from Ontario, had married in 1884 in Kingston. Over the years John worked as a gas fitter/tinsmith/plumber. Children born to the couple were Mary (1885), Catherine (1886), John O’Connor (1888), Edmund,… Read More »
Corporal Joseph Dion enlisted in Winnipeg in May 1915, at age 21, and served in France with the 10th Battalion. He was killed in action in April 1917. Joseph was the youngest son of Ferdinand (Frank) Joseph Dion and Emilie Michaud. Ferdinand and Emilie were both born in Quebec. By the early 1880s they were… Read More »
