Fredrick Russell Chute (1878 - 1917)

Frederick Chute was born in Norfolk, England to parents Edward Russell and Mary Nina Chute. He served in the 50th Gordons before immigrating to Canada.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 35.)) He was a Dawson miner when he enlisted for duty in the First World War.((Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada)) He joined Boyle’s Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery, later the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Chute never lived to see action. He was killed when an ambulance lost control and hit a group of marching Yukon volunteers. He is buried at the Milford Cemetery near Witley, Surrey, the wartime site of a large encampment of Canadian Soldiers training for the war.((Michael Gates, “Paying Homage to the Yukon fallen of World War I.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 14 September 2018.)) Chute was awarded the British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal and is commemorated on the Dawson War Memorial.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 35.))