Born in 1925, Officer Arthur Moyle was born and raised in San Francisco. He served in the Navy aboard the JSS Cleveland in the South Pacific during World War II.  After the war, he worked as a soft drink salesman for Nehi Beverages. He moved to South San Francisco in 1951, just as the city and department were booming. The City of South San Francisco is located on the west shore of the San Francisco Bay in northern San Mateo County. In the post-war 1940s, the city’s population boomed due to smokestack industries. The South San Francisco Police Department opened new headquarters on December 1, 1949, and heavily recruited officers to patrol the streets. After being sworn in just three weeks earlier, Patrolman Moyle was struck by a young female drunk driver on May 4 at 2:30 a.m. He had been setting flares and directing traffic away from a stalled car, which had plunged through an access road from South San Francisco into the southbound Bayshore Freeway. Officer Moyle died from the injuries. He was laid to rest at the Golden Gate National Cemetery. He left behind his wife Alice Moyle.