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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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‘The RAF training program in Canada ceased with the armistice and the RAF, Canada was demobilized in late 1918. During the highly successful operation of the program, more that 9 000 cadets and nearly 7 500 mechanics were enlisted, 3 272 aircrew were graduated ‘thousands of Canadians were trained with a long-term impact upon both… Read More »
Andrew Dempster was one of four brothers, the sons of John and Catherine Dempster, to volunteer for service during the war. He had been born on 08 August 1887 in Stirling, Scotland. The family included John (1861) and Catherine (1861); sons William (1894), Thomas (1887), his twin brother Andrew (1887); Daniel (1888); John (1896) and… Read More »
Percival Frank Rushton was born on 27 March 1896 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. His father Walter and mother Letitia (née Booth) Rushton had married in Worcester in 1894. While in England Walter’s occupation on the censuses was given as ‘China Printer Earth’. There were four children in the Rushton family, Ernest (b 1895), Percy Frank… Read More »
Sapper James Albert Richard Williamson enlisted with the 52nd Battalion in Kenora, Ontario and served overseas for three and a half years, most of that time with the Canadian Engineers. He returned to Canada in March 1919. According to his attestation James was born in Keewatin, Ontario on 25 March 1886. Other records indicate a… Read More »
Frank Charge was born on 4 June 1881 in the inner parish of Aston in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His father Leonard Charge, grocer and baker, was from Worcester, Worcestershire while his mother Frances Adams was from Taunton in Somerset. The couple had married on 5 October 1879 in Aston. Their first two children, Arthur (1880)… Read More »
According to his service file and census records, John Martin Agnew was born on 01 October 1890 in Prince William, York County, New Brunswick. His parents were Laurence Agnew and Mary Ann Adams (née Moore). Mary Ann had been married previously and she had a son, Warren Adams, who was born in the U.S. around… Read More »
Second Corporal Glen McClatchie enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years. Glen was born in Plainville, Wisconsin and grew up in the nearby town of Tomah. His parents were James and Mattie McClatchie. James, a lumber scaler, had four children with his first wife Cornelia:… Read More »
Charles DuBerger Chaloner was born in Norman, Ontario on November 17, 1887, the fifth child of John Henry Chaloner and Polly (Mary Gertrude Heatley). His siblings were Mary Constance Loretta, Clara Louise Kate, Adelaide Heatley, Florence Isobel, Henry St. John, Marguerite Josephine, Arthur Reginald, Robert Edward and Celina Frances Dorothy. Charles’ elder sisters were born in Quebec City… Read More »
Private George Gabriel Carpentier of Marchand, Manitoba enlisted in February 1917 at age 17. He served for eighteen months in England then spent three months in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion, returning to Canada in March 1919. Gabriel was the oldest son of Horace Carpentier and Marie Philomene Gosselin. Horace and Marie were… Read More »
Second Lieutenant Leonard Brown Stacey enlisted in the 196th Battalion in 1916, at age 16, and received a commission in the Indian Army about two years later. He served with the Indian Army in Mesopotamia and returned to Canada in October 1919. Leonard was the youngest son of Reverend Frank Bainard Stacey and Susanna Johnson… Read More »
