Jack Maitland Jack Maitland and Howard Grestock left Dawson on the same boat to enlist in the First World War soon after it was declared in 1914. Maitland was with the Royal Scots Greys in the Boer War and was wounded twice.((Michael Gates, //From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I.// Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 13.))