William Kenneth “Bill” Currie
	
William Kenneth Currie was born in Prince Edward Island to father Archibald Currie of Dundas. He was one of three sons that spent some time in the Yukon.((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 208-209.)) Kenneth Currie mined in the Fortymile District. He was a prominent man in the miners’ meetings.((Michael Gates,//From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 14, 86, 150.))  

W. K. “Bill” Currie, was employed with the New Northwest Corporation and the Granville Mining Co. before joining the Treadwell Yukon Company at Keno Hill. He also served a three-year term in the Yukon Council, representing the Dawson District [1922].((J. Clinton Morrison, //Chasing a Dream: Prince Edward Islanders in the Klondike.// Summerside, PEI: Crescent Isle Publishers. 2004: 208-209.)) Currie enlisted to serve in the First World War. The Yukon Battery was amalgamated with Black's 17th Machine Gun Company in 1918. Lieutenant James A. McKinnon, William Kenneth Currie, Ernest Lawrence Peppard and Aubrey Forrest were the only ones remaining from the Yukon Battery and the forty-nine men who had posed under the "Dawson to Berlin" banner in 1914. The rest had been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or transferred to other units.((Michael Gates,//From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 14, 86, 150.)) In 1923-24, Wm. K. Currie was working for B&B Ltd. in Dawson.((//Polks Gazetteer,// 1923-24.) Currie was still living in Dawson in 1930.((Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, 1(5).))