Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald was a Canadian who became a celebrated Boer War veteran and the first commander of the Royal Northwest 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."
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Date of Birth
April 12nd, 1869
Age
155
Birth Place
Canada, Nova Scotia
Date of Death
January 1st, 1911
Died Aged
41
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