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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Corporal John Wesley Loyst enlisted in March 1916 and served overseas for two and a half years. He was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge but he survived the war and returned home in June 1919. John was the oldest son of John Wesley Loyst Sr. and Mary Sinclair of Chase, British Columbia. John… Read More »
Private Adrien Bruel was born around 1877 in Colombiès, Aveyron, France. France had universal conscription at the time and Adrien would have served for three years in the Active Army before being transferred to the Territorial Army and the reserves. His wife Amantie was also born in Colombiès and she was about four years younger… Read More »
The name of T J Young appeared in the 5 January 1916 edition of the Kenora Miner and News as a new enlistment with the 94th Battalion. However his identity could not be confirmed and he was not on the nominal roll of the battalion.
Noël François Victor Bernuy was born on 18 December 1887 in Jujurieux, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France. His parents François Bernuy, a grocer, and Josephine Guiguet married on 23 October 1886. Children born to the couple were Victor, Louis (1889), Jean Marius (John) (1893), Emile Joseph (1894), and Gabriel Eugene (1898). Victor was the first to immigrate… Read More »
John Arthur Webb was born on 10 December 1890 in Stafford, Staffordshire in England. His parents Charles Henry Webb and Ann Lea were from Wolverhampton in Staffordshire where they married on 16 November 1881. Children born to the couple in Wolverhampton were Jane Elizabeth (1882) and Charles Henry (1885). By the time of the birth… Read More »
Private Wilfred Lavoie joined the 52nd Battalion in 1915 and served overseas for four years. He returned to Canada in September 1919 with a war bride. Wilfred was the son of Wilfred Lavoie Sr. and Mary Ann McKeon of Kenora, Ontario. Mary Ann’s family emigrated from Scotland when she was a child and by 1881… Read More »
Private John Arthur Presley was born in Clarence Creek, Russell County, Ontario. His parents were Joseph Presley, a farmer, and Jane Conn. Joseph and Jane were both Irish and born in the Clarence Creek area. John grew up there and he was one of at least ten children. At some point he moved west and… Read More »
Private Walter Malcolm Jones enlisted in Winnipeg in July 1915 and served in France with the 78th Battalion. He was wounded at the Vimy front in January 1917 and invalided back to Canada about a year later. Walter was one of six sons of Anson Jones and Sarah Halliday Armstrong of Mount Albert, Ontario. Anson… Read More »
Edwin Claridge Hayward was born on 25 September 1893 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. His parents were Alfred Hayward and Emma Jane Dee. Siblings included: Alfred William (b. 1883), George Harold (b. 1884), Laurence Victor (b. 1888), Violet Eliza (b. 1890), Margaret Ellen (b. 1891), Ernest Dee (b. 1893), and Noel Stephen (b. 1896). Edwin’s father,… Read More »
