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Richard Babb (b.1886)
	
Richard Babb was born in Sydenham, Kent County, England. He was living in Dawson as a single man in 1911.((Canadian Census, 1911.)) Babb was a miner in November 1914 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, No. 2666 10 November 1014, Vancouver.)) He had an undivided half interest in the “Rose” mineral claim on the left limit of Gold Run Creek, with Samuel J. Thurber owning the other half. ((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B.)) Lieutenant Babb was wounded in 1917.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) He achieved the rank of captain during the war.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, No. 2666, 10 November 1014, Vancouver.)) Richard Babb was captured by the Germans in 1918.((Michael Gates, “WWI letters detail lives of Yukon recruits.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 21 November 2004.))