Gustav Espenon Gustav Espenon was born in France. He was a miner in the Dawson area before the First World War and he left for home when war was declared.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 17.)) He was with the French regulars in the Alps when he was wounded.((P. D. Bushe, “Yukoners at the front in the great war.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), August 17, 1915.))