Robert W. Service

Robert William Service (1874-1958), born in Preston in England and brought up in Scotland, left a Glasgow bank to emigrate to Canada in the mid-1890s, then lived by odd jobs in the West, from British Columbia to California. Hired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, he was transferred to Whitehorse at the end of 1904, then to Dawson in 1908. A war correspondent in the Balkans and then in France, an ambulance driver during the Great War, he settled in France after the war and died at Lancieux, in Brittany.

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• PoetrySongs of a SourdoughRobert W. Service · 1907Literature