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Alfred Thomas Price was born on July 4, 1890 in Nottingham, England. He worked as a Municipal Clerk for Transcona. A.T. Price enlisted in the army on September 23, 1914. He died on January 17, 1922.

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Support came quickly from the town's citizens, many of whom were young, unmarried men that worked for the railway. Several were recent British immigrants and native-born Canadians of British decent who were strongly patriotic to King George V and the British Empire, of which the Dominion of Canada was a part.