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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Joseph Wickham was born on 28 June 1891 in Newthorpe in the registration district of Tadcaster in Yorkshire West, England. His father Samuel Wickham was from Gravesend in Kent while his mother Sarah Barrow was from Crewe in Cheshire. The couple’s marriage was registered during the second quarter of 1888 in the district of Nantwich,… Read More »
Ira Franklin (Pat) Wismer was born on 23 April 1898 in the RM of Glenwood (Souris), Manitoba. His father Norman Wismer and mother Deborah Mezina Clark were from Warwick Township, Lambton, Ontario. At some point after their marriage the couple headed west, first found in Treherne, RM of Norfolk, in Manitoba followed by a few… Read More »
Albert Bertram (Bert) Lennox was born on 25 February 1885 in Banda, Simcoe, Ontario. Both of his parents William and Jane (Wilcox) Lennox were from farms in the area and had married on 12 March 1884 in nearby Barrie. Their first born child, Bert had younger siblings Jessie Jane (1887-1962), William Henry (Harry) (1889-1960), and… Read More »
William Nathaniel Hockin (Hocken, Hawkins) was born on 18 April 1888 in Huntsville, Ontario. His father was Nathaniel Hockin, born around 1858 in the Tay Township, Simcoe. Over the years the surname had a number of spellings, eventually with William consistently using Hawkins. His mother was Margaret Elizabeth Knott who was born in 1872 in… Read More »
George William Everard was born Sat. 22 Sept .1894, Bromborough, Cheshire, England. His father George William Everard was born on Fri. 21 July 1871, Stoneton, Cheshire, England. His mother Mary Ellen Dawber was born in 1868, Liverpool, Wigan, England. They were married summer of 1890, Liverpool, Wigon, England. George’s Christening date was on Sun. 9… Read More »
Birth and early life: According to his Attestation Papers from the First World War, William was born October 31, 1888, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; however, his actual birth date was October 31, 1885. He was the son of William Saddington and Bertha Ann Wright who were married in 1863 in the parish of St. Andrew,… Read More »
The second born child, Thomas William John Shirvell was born during the first quarter of 1889 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. His parents Thomas Edward and Mary Jane (née Scott) Shirvell had married in Christchurch during the last quarter of 1886. As baker, confectioner, and pastry cook, Thomas’s parents operated a bakery from their home. Other… Read More »
Flight Lieutenant Roy MacDonald was working as a jeweller in Kenora, Ontario when he enlisted in the fall of 1914. Over the next four years he served in England, France and Belgium, first with the Canadian Expeditionary Force then as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918 his plane was shot down and… Read More »
Joseph Albert Serre was born on 4 May 1898 in Chapleau, Ontario. His father Telesphore was from the Ottawa area while his mother Clarinda Chartrand was from Quebec. The couple married in 1892 in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. Before the birth of their first child Trefle Rodolphe in 1894 they had moved to Chapleau, Ontario where… Read More »
Charles Kenneth Hinton was born on 27 October 1886 in Bronte, Ontario, a community located on the western end of Lake Ontario between Hamilton and Toronto. His father was Adam Hinton, a sailor born in the area to a father who was a mariner. His mother was Elizabeth Jane Camp, also born in Bronte. Children… Read More »
