Joseph Tilton (1867-1917)

Joseph Tilton was born near Tilsonburg, Ontario to parents Samuel and Caroline Tilton. He came north in 1900 and worked as a teamster in Dawson.1) Before the war he was living at Moosehide, downriver from Dawson. Private Tilton was killed in action at Passchendaele Ridge on October 30, 1917.2) His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium.3) Tilton was one of nine Yukoners killed on the same day at Passchendaele. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal.4)

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D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, The Yukon Fallen of World War I. Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 106.
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Michael Gates, From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I. Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 107.
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Michael Gates, “Paying Homage to the Yukon fallen of World War I.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 14 September 2018.