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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Edward Lewis Wright was born on 25 November 1890 in Ilford, Essex on the outskirts of London, England. His father William Edward Wright, a gardener, was born in 1865 in High Ingar, Essex and had married his first wife Sarah Jenkins during the 1st quarter of 1883 in the registration district of Chelmsford, Essex where… Read More »
William Haldane (Hal) Dingwall was born on 17 June 1882 in the Township of Charlottenburg in the county of Glengarry, Ontario. Located in southeastern Ontario, the nearest city in the area was/is Lancaster. Charlottenburg and Lancaster were two of the original eight ‘Royal Townships’, established along the Saint Lawrence River in Upper Canada in the… Read More »
Private Peter Bolton Eastman enlisted in September 1915 and served with the 5th Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded three times – at the Somme, Vimy and Passchendaele. He served again for five years in the Second World War. Bolton was the son of David Benjamin Eastman and Sarah Ann Bolton of South… Read More »
Michael Zaremba was born on the 21 May 1894 in Russia. By 14 July 1915 when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service in WW1, he was living in Montreal, Quebec and had the occupation of labourer. He joined the 41st Battalion and arrived in England on 28 October 1915. The following June… Read More »
Private Ronald Cameron enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in March 1916. He was wounded at the Somme that fall while serving with the 16th Battalion, and he was invalided back to Canada in March 1917. Ronald (aka Ranald) was born on 21 September 1880 in Alexandria, Lochiel Township, Glengarry County, Ontario. His parents, Duncan Cameron and… Read More »
Louis John Hill was born December 7, 1883 in Strathroy, Bruce County, Ontario (birth registered as John Lewis Hill). His parents were John James Hill and Anna Bella Doman. John James, a cooper (barrel maker) by trade, had been born in Ontario in 1854 to Irish immigrant parents, and Anna Bella was born in Ireland… Read More »
Harry Emmerson Primmer was born in the area of Hepworth, Amabel Township in the county of Bruce, Ontario. A birth record could not be found but it is likely that he was born on 5 May 1893. Census documents give his birth as 5 May 1893, his obituary as 1894, and his attestation papers/service record… Read More »
Archie E Austin was born on 2 February 1888 in the township of Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario. His father William Edwin Austin, a blacksmith, was from Townsend while his mother Della Force was from Windham, Ontario. The couple married in 1887 in Waterford in Norfolk. Archie had a younger brother, Charles Arthur, born in 1889. Archie… Read More »
Leslie Stephen Morley was born on 30 April 1899 in Virden, Manitoba. His parents Samuel Edward Morley and Mary Jane Williams, both of their families farming in nearby Watt, had married in Bracebridge, Ontario on 16 August 1881. The couple were to farm in Watt where children Robert Edward (1882), Catherine Ann (1884), Hannah Jane… Read More »
Gunner Arthur Gordon Richmond was a student when he enlisted in January 1916, at age 17. He served in Great Britain, France and Belgium with the Canadian Field Artillery and returned home in July 1919. Arthur was born on 1 July 1898 in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario. His parents, George James Richmond and… Read More »
