Thomas Herbert Ainsworth (b.1891)

Thomas Herbert Ainsworth was born in England. He was a miner living at Bear Creek, working as a labourer with the Canadian Klondyke Mining Co. in 1917-18.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Genealogy website.)) He was drafted to serve in the First World War in February 1918.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, 13 February 1918. WWI Reg #2140241.)) He returned to the Yukon after the war. Ainsworth was a gold dust man, and he registered for employment as a returned soldier in 1920.((March 1, 1920.  Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Enlistment. Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-G.))