Morris Anthony (b.1882)

Morris Anthony was born in Nova Scotia. He was a miner and a prospector in the Yukon in May 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.1) He joined Boyle’s Yukon Battery.2) In May 1918, Felix Boutin, Kenneth Currie, Sergeant Larry Peppard, and Private Morris Anthony were together in their trench when a sniper's bullet struck Anthony in the mouth, knocking out two teeth and exiting out the back of his neck. He survived and was sent back to Canada to recuperate.3)

1)
Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI Reg #107068 and #2729. 7 May 1916 at Victoria.
2)
Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 17 August 1917.
3)
Michael Gates, From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I. Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 86.