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Private Art Goodmurphy, a member of A Company of the 28th Northwest Battalion of the Canadian Corps.
Art Goodmurphy, a former glazier from Regina, was a veteran despite his twenty-one years. He had been through a lot with the 28th -- the Somme in 1916, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and Passchendaele in 1917, and already this year -- Amiens, the D-Q Line, Canal du Nord and Cambrai.
Private Art Goodmurphy was with Private George Lawrence Price, the last soldier to die in the Great War.
See the story - The Last Patrol of Private Price by James McWilliams.
Reta was born in Sinclair, Manitoba. She moved to Regina in 1919 to work for SaskTel. She drove taxi for Arthur (and Albert Deal) who had a Black & White Taxi business during WWII.
Reta passed away in 1990 at Regina Pioneer Village.
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