Athol Herridge Macfarlane (b.1892) Athol Macfarlane had been a schoolboy in Dawson and was attending school in Ottawa when he went into officer training to serve in the First World War.((WWI Library and Archives Canada.)) Lieutenant Macfarlane was wounded twice and received the Military Cross.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1917.))