Wilmot Warren Annett (b. 1885)

Wilmot Annett was born in New Brunswick.1) When the First World War was declared, Annett and Walter Keddy were on Herschel Island. They mushed by dog team to Fort Yukon and then up the Yukon to Dawson, then took the first boat of the season to go out to enlist.2) Wilmot Annett was a Dawson miner and prospector in May 1916 when he enlisted to serve in the First World War.3)

1) , 3)
Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Paper, WWI #1015532. May 29, 1916 at Sidney.
2)
Michael Gates, From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I. Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 16.