• Source: Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
    • Francis Joseph Fitzgerald (12 April 1869 – 11 February 1911) was a Canadian who became a celebrated Boer War veteran and the first commander of the Royal North-West Mounted Police detachment at Herschel Island in the Western Arctic (1903). From December 1910 until February 1911, he led a mail patrol from Fort McPherson southward to Dawson City. When the patrol did not arrive in time, a search party, led by Corporal William Dempster, was sent from Dawson City and found the bodies of Fitzgerald and the other patrol members. The trip became known as "The Lost Patrol" and as "one of Yukon’s greatest tragedies."























      See also


      Military history of Nova Scotia
      History of Yukon


      References




      External links



      Officer Down Memorial Page - RCMP
      The Lost Patrol - RCMP website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 28, 2013)
      Canadian Biography Online - Fitzgerald
      The Lost Patrol - Virtual Museum

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