Herbert Maxwell Lawless (1872 – 1917)
	
Herbert Lawless was born in Toronto, Ontario. He served with the Governor General’s Foot Guards before joining the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in March 1898.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 67.)) He was posted in the Yukon for five years.((WWI Reg. #107379. November 7, 1914 in Vancouver. Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada.)) One of his postings was a Gold Run Creek.((Email to Sally Robinson from Rod Dewell, April 2017. Anniversary of Vimy Ridge.)) He was a prospector in 1914 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.((WWI Reg. #107379. 7 November 1914 in Vancouver. Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada.)) 

Herbert Lawless joined the Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery in Vancouver in November 1914. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery after his unit, the 78th Battalion, conducted a raid in February 1917 and he was promoted to corporal in March 1917. He was killed by shrapnel near the Farbus-Vimy Railway and he is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in Pas de Calais, France.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 67.)) He was the only Yukoner to be killed at Vimy Ridge.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 104.))