Thomas Sherlock Belcher
	
Thomas Belcher was with Inspector William Hamilton Scarth and the second contingent of North-West Mounted Police to come to the Yukon. Scarth and his men replaced the original detachment at Fort Constantine. The twenty-man detachment landed at Fort Constantine sometime in June 1897 and were immediately sent to Dawson. Their first job was to evict the First Nation people camped on the proposed site of the post. Nine police buildings were built and three moved up from Fort Constantine.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 43-44, 249, 165.)) A Dawson newspaper reported in September 1898 that Belcher, formerly in charge of the town police, was ill with a fever.(("Local brevities." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 17 September 1898.)) The poorly drained townsite was home to severe cases of typhoid that year.
	
During the Boer War, Sam Steele commanded the Strathcona's in South Africa and was joined by Inspectors Belcher and Cartwright who commanded the summit detachments. Belcher and Inspector Jarvis were made Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George for their services.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 43-44, 249, 165.))