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Mike thank you for your assistance I was not aware of Paterson. He makes 16 deaths of mounties so far.

H. R. Skirving was his brother Herbert Robertson Skirving NWMP reg #3188. He served in South Africa but survived and lived to age 80 and is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in London Ontario, see Find a Grave number 177257781.

Please see the below photograph of Lieutenant George McBeath Skirving, taken at Aldershot. This was published in an obituary to Skirving in The Daily Free Press, London, Ontario, on page five of the 26 November 1901 issue.

He is some interesting facts about Paterson.

John Alexander Paterson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1866 and he enlisted in the North-West Mounted Police in 1882. He quickly suffered the wrath of Inspector Griesbach when he was reprimanded for ‘Did idling in the garden when sent to work’!
He served in the North-West Rebellion at Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1885. On November 3, 1887 he found himself in Service Court again under the charge ‘Did conceal killing of a calf by another member’. For not ratting out his co-worker he was sentenced to 12 months hard labour! On February 6, 1888 the remainder of his sentence was remitted and his contract of service completed he took his discharge after six years in the Mounties.