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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Birth date and location: James Percy Williams was born January 24, 1890 in Fort Frances, Ontario to Jabez Williams (born July 29, 1858, New Buckingham, Norfolk, England) and Annie (born May 15, 1862 christened in July at St. Andrew, Manitoba). Annie’s maiden name was MacKenzie. The Williams family research has traced ‘Percy’s’ maternal Cree and… Read More »
Sapper Arthur Charles Cripps enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years. Arthur was the only son of Arthur Cripps (Sr.) and Maria Moore of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. His father had grown up in Gloucestershire and his mother was from Somerset. They were married in 1889… Read More »
Frederick Frank (Fred) Sawkins was born on 11 April 1889 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His father William Henry Sawkins was born in St George, London while his mother Amelia Mary Clarke was from Upton, Worcestershire. The couple married during the last quarter of 1882 in the Registration District of King’s Norton, Worcestershire. Their first two… Read More »
Private George Thomas was a fisherman living on Lake of the Woods when he was called up for service in May 1918. He spent 14 months in Great Britain and returned home in the fall of 1919. George was born on 15 May 1893, either at Sabaskosing on Lake of the Woods or in the… Read More »
The son of George Millward and Margaret Donald, Edwin George Millward was born on 18 February 1892 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father George, a cook, was from England while his mother’s Métis roots were in the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. Margaret had previously been married to Charles Linklater, the couple… Read More »
Name registered as Alfred Laverne Killins, Verne was born on 17 May 1899 in Rat Portage (later named Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents Alfred Camsell Killins and Lillian Florence Mason were both from southern Ontario but married in February of 1898 in Sault Saint Marie where Lillian was living. Alfred, a railroad brakeman, had… Read More »
Frank Jacob Garrow was born September 20, 1889 in Colehill, Ontario. He was the 5th child of 8 born to Joseph Garrow and Elizabeth McKinnon. Frank’s siblings were William, Joseph, Steven, Annie, Lucy, Sarah and Agnes. The family was all born in Ontario. Shortly after the 1901 census Joseph and Elizabeth moved their… Read More »
Private Allan Paton McKie enlisted in the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion in May 1915. He died of wounds a year later during the Battle of Mount Sorrel. Allan was the youngest child of William McKie and Agnes Hill. William and Agnes were married in December 1875 in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland. They had nine children, seven… Read More »
Although he gave Whitemouth, Manitoba as the place of his birth on his attestation papers, Henry Greenwood, along with his twin sister Elizabeth, was born July 13, 1893 in Winnipeg. His father and mother had immigrated from England in 1892, first homesteading in Whitemouth, Manitoba for about two years before moving to Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora)…. Read More »
