John Angus MacPherson (1882 – 1917)
	
John Angus McPherson was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He worked in Dawson as an electrician and lineman and enlisted to serve in the First World War in July 1916.((WWI Reg. #1015597. 1 July 1916 in Sidney. Attestation Paper, Library and Archives Canada.)) His original unit was the 231 Battalion and the later transferred to the Canadian Engineers. Overseas he joined the 14th Field Company, 5th Canadian Division Engineers. He was on a training exercise when he was wounded by an exploding land mine.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 75.)) It happened in the trenches during the preliminaries to the making a newsreel about the second battle of Arras.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 5 October 1917.)) He was evacuated to the Canadian Military Hospital in Branshott, England where he died. Sapper MacPherson is buried in the Milford Cemetery in Witley, Surry, England.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 75.)) Witley was the site of a large encampment of Canadian Soldiers training for the war.((Michael Gates, “Paying Homage to the Yukon fallen of World War I.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 14 September 2018.))