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Corporal Morphy was formerly a law student and clerk with the Federal Bank in Toronto. He was an accomplished athlete who captained the Toronto Rugby Union Football Club and oared competitively with the Argonaut Rowing Club. He was promoted to Corporal in February 1889. Corporal Morphy drowned in Lake Winnipeg when the Mounted Police boat capsized during a storm. Corporal Harry Oliver Morphy Inscription on grave marker
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Corporal Oliver Morphy served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Corporal Harry Oliver Morphy is one of 1 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In ON, 266 of 364 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 73.1% of this state's fallen. That is 73.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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