Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Joseph Fitzgerald

Canadian police officer

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1869

Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1911

Profession: police officer

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Francis Joseph Fitzgerald was a Nova Scotian 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."