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Yukon Peace Officer Honour Roll





They Gave Their Lives While Serving the Yukon

Officers are listed chronologically by date of death.

Cst. Norman M. Campbell
North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 2972
December 26, 1901: drowned at the mouth of the Stikine River when a violent storm overturned the boat he was in.

Cst. Spencer G. Heathcote
North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 3463
December 26, 1901: drowned at the mouth of the Stikine River when a violent storm overturned the boat he was in.

Special Cst. Stick Sam
North West Mounted Police
July 29, 1903: drowned in the Kaskawulsh River when his horse threw him while crossing on a patrol.

Cpl. Alexander G. Haddock
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 2836
June 14, 1906: drowned in the Yukon River near Ogilvie while on patrol in a canoe.

Special Cst. Samuel Carter
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 2127
February 14, 1911: died of starvation and exposure near Fort McPherson, NWT while on winter patrol from Dawson to Fort McPherson.

Insp. Francis J. Fitzgerald
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 2218
February 14, 1911: died of starvation and exposure near Fort McPherson, NWT while on winter patrol from Dawson to Fort McPherson.

Cst. George F. Kinney
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 4582
February 14, 1911: died of starvation and exposure near Fort McPherson, NWT while on winter patrol from Dawson to Fort McPherson.

Cst. Richard O. Taylor
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 4346
February 14, 1911: died of starvation and exposure near Fort McPherson, NWT while on winter patrol from Dawson to Fort McPherson.

Cst. Michael J. Fitzgerald
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 3617
August 27, 1913: killed when a snapped rope knocked him off the police steamer "Vidette" on the White River.

Cst. Alexander Lamont
Royal North West Mounted Police - Regimental No. 5548
February 16, 1918: died at Herschel Island, of typhoid fever contracted while nursing Arctic explorer Vihjalmur Stefansson.

Cst. Ian M. Macdonald
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 9791
August 18, 1924: drowned in the Beaufort Sea when he fell overboard from the ship on which he was returning to Herschel Island.

Cst. Edgar Millen
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 9669
January 30, 1932: shot on the Rat River by Albert Johnson, the "Mad Trapper."

Sgt. Morley K. Laughland
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 17368
July 13, 1963: killed when RCMP Beaver CF-MPO crashed at Carmacks while attempting to land.

Cst. Proctor L. A. Malcolm
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 18570
July 13, 1963: killed when RCMP Beaver CF-MPO crashed at Carmacks while attempting to land.

Cst. William J. D. Annand
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 19206
July 13, 1963: killed when RCMP Beaver CF-MPO crashed at Carmacks while attempting to land.

Cpl. Robert Wiliam Asbil
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 19626
July 13, 1963: killed when RCMP Beaver CF-MPO crashed at Carmacks while attempting to land.

Cst. Mark Percy McLachlan
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 31962
February 2, 1979: killed in a head-on vehicle crash near Carmacks while returning to Mayo.

Cst. Michael Joseph Buday
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Regimental No. 33631
March 19, 1985: shot at Teslin Lake by Michael Eugene Oros.

Sgt. Ed Mobley
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
August 15, 2000: killed in crash of RCMP Cessna Caravan on Teslin Lake, Yukon. News reports are available here.

Special Constable Tim Nicholson
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
August 15, 2000: killed in crash of RCMP Cessna Caravan on Teslin Lake, Yukon. News reports are available here.




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