Morris Anthony (b.1882)

Morris Anthony was born in Nova Scotia. He was a miner and a prospector in the Yukon in May 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg #107068 and #2729. 7 May 1916 at Victoria.)) He joined Boyle’s Yukon Battery.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.)) In May 1918, Felix Boutin, Kenneth Currie, Sergeant Larry Peppard, and Private Morris Anthony were together in their trench when a sniper's bullet struck Anthony in the mouth, knocking out two teeth and exiting out the back of his neck. He survived and was sent back to Canada to recuperate.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 86.))