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Alfred Cronin (1884 - 1918)
	
Alfred Cronin was born in Liverpool, England. He was a deckhand on the Yukon River steamers based out of Whitehorse.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Genealogy database.)) He was a clerk at H.J. Bigger in Whitehorse in 1901 and a clerk at the Arctic Trading Co. in Whitehorse in 1909-10.((Yukon Archives, COR 729 f.16.)) When he enlisted to serve in the First World War, Cronin was a clerk in the Northern Commercial Company store in Whitehorse.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 17.)) He was a private with the 67th Pioneers in October 1915 and advanced quickly to become a Temporary Lieutenant in June 1918. He was killed on the north side of Bourlon Wood, France while going to the aid of a wounded comrade. He was awarded the British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal. Lieutenant Cronin is buried in Bourlon Wood Cemetery in Pas de Calais, France. Mount Cronin, near the NWT border on the Dempster Highway, is named in his honour.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 37.))