eorge Byron Currie (1875 – 1918)
		
George Byron Currie was born in Dundas, Prince Edward Island.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 38.)) He was a miner in the Dawson area in 1901 and 1902.((Rasmussen Library, //Alaska Yukon Gazetteers// 1901 to 1912 index.)) He mined at Granville.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 38.)) Currie stayed in the Yukon until about 1911.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 208-209.)) Currie was working as a fire ranger in March 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg. #904482. 6 March 1916 at Edmonton.)) His unit, the 194th Battalion, was absorbed by the 9th Reserve Battalion in January 1917. He transferred to the 10th Battalion in May 1917 and was killed by an artillery barrage near Lens in March 1918. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. Private Currie is buried in Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension in Pas de Calais, France.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 38.)) Two of George’s brothers also spent time in the Yukon.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 208-209.)) One of them, William Kenneth, served with the Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 38.))