Jim Reilly (d. 2002)
	
Jim Reilly enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corp in May 1951 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He was shipped to Camp Borden, Ontario for basic training and qualified as a clerk. One year later he was shipped to Korea and attached to the 23rd Transport Company as a clerk, and he stayed in Korea for a year. After his return to Canada, he worked at Regina headquarters, transferred to the Postal Corp, and transferred to Vancouver where he became a corporal. In March 1954, his outfit was sent to France and Jim was attached to the 1st Air Division Postal Unit. He made sergeant and was in charge of the clerks in his unit. He was in France for three years, returned to Canada in 1957, and was honourably discharged with the United Nations Service medal and the Korea medal.((Chuck Margeson, "Remembering Jim Reilly." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 18 June 2002.)) 

Jim then joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and took another term of basic training, qualified as a radar technician and became a corporal. He did that job until 1959 when he became a clerk with the Intelligence Corp. He was stationed in Canada but did exercises all over the world and after five years was sent to Germany to work in the intelligence operations’ headquarters. Jim received his Canadian forces medal in 1964 and took an honourable discharge in 1967.((Chuck Margeson, "Remembering Jim Reilly." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 18 June 2002.))

Jim was in Dawson by the 1980s where he was active in the local Legion and volunteered as Commanding Officer of the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Corp of 896 Pioneer Squadron. He remained the CO until he resigned in May 1988. Jim remained with the Legion for thirty years and was a chairman for various committees and the president until he passed away. He was one of the last Second World War veterans in Dawson.((Chuck Margeson, "Remembering Jim Reilly." //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 18 June 2002.))