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Frank Hurdman Thompson
Frank Thompson was the son of local Dawson doctor W. E. Thompson.1) Frank went to school in Dawson and was employed at the Dawson Canadian Bank of Commerce.2) In 1916, he held mining claim No. 7 on Dublin Gulch in the Mayo District. When he enlisted to serve in the First World War, his claim was kept free from cancellation while he was fighting.3) Frank Thompson was invalided home to Dawson in 1917.4)
1)
Michael Gates, “Every picture tells a story.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 22 January 1016.
2)
Michael Gates, From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I. Madeira Park B.C.: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017: 213.
3)
Yukon Archives, GOV 1654, f.29600-B 4(7
4)
Dawson Daily News (Dawson), 17 August 1917.
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