Albert Edward Browne (1893 – 1918)
Albert Browne was born in Derby, England. He was working with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson at the start of the First World War. He enlisted in November 1914 as a member of Joe Boyle’s Yukon Battery and later was transferred to the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was promoted to sergeant by August 1915 and was deployed to Europe with the Rifles on September 1915. He was trained and commissioned as a lieutenant in February 1917 and posted to the 16th Battalion. He was shot and killed by machine gun fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal. He is buried in Ecoives Military Cemetery in Pas de Calais, France.1) In September 1920, a plaque was unveiled at the Dawson Canadian Bank of Commerce for three employees who enlisted in the First World War: Edward Browne (killed April 5, 1918), John I. Miller, and Frank H. Thompson.2)