Fred LaBlanche (1876 – 1917)
	
Fred LaBlanche was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a musician and bartender in Dawson when he enlisted to serve in the First World War in September 1916. He went to England with the Yukon Infantry Company and transferred to the 7th Reserve Battalion in February, to the 17th Canadian Machine Gun Company in May, and back to the 7th Reserve in July 1917. In France he transferred to Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, joining them in the Vimy section in August 1917.  He went missing and was presumed dead during the Battle of Passchendaele. Private LaBlanche was awarded the British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 66.))