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Marko Milatovich (1880 - 1918)
	
Marko Milatovich was born in Montenegro and was working in Dawson as a labourer when he enlisted for service in the First War.((Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada)) He was recruited by Captain George Black and was in England in August 1917.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson) 17 August 1917.)) In England, he transferred to the 17th Canadian Machine Gun Company and then to the 156th Battalion. He was deployed to France as reinforcement for the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry.  He was reported missing in action and presumed dead after an assault on the trenches at Parvillers. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. Marko Milatovich is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial in France.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 80.))