BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE
and the
former constituent force of Bedfordshire Constabulary
Lest we Forget
Herbert M. Jay
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Constabulary
Died 19 June 1929, aged 31
Knocked down and killed by a motor lorry when he was talking to the driver of a bus he had stopped, while on foot patrol at night, at Hockcliffe cross-roads near Leighton Buzzard.
Sydney K. Dunkley
Special Constable
Bedfordshire Constabulary
Died September 1939, aged 45
While on duty standing in front of his stationary car on the main Bedford to Luton road, another car crashed into the back of it in the darkness, his car was overturned and he was thrown 20 yards into a ditch and fatally injured.
Alfred Donald Warton
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Constabulary
Died April 1948, aged 35
Died at Bedford as a result of injuries received in a road accident when the police patrol car he was driving crashed and overturned.
Robert Housden
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Constabulary
Died 8 December 1954, aged 22
Killed on traffic duty when a motor car collided with him while he was warning traffic of the danger of flood water following torrential rain and thunderstorms during the night at Bedford.
Geoffrey Ivor Ball
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Police
Died 16 February 1983, aged 29
Died in hospital as a result of injuries sustained on 10 February when his police motorcycle was in collision with an articulated lorry at Astwick.
Ronald Hunter
Police Sergeant
Bedfordshire Police
Died 30 December 1985, aged 52
Collapsed and died from heart failure while on duty at Biggleswade Police Station.
Robert Charles Pearman
Police Sergeant
Bedfordshire Police
Died 11 December 1995, aged 42
Collapsed and died of an aneurism whilst dealing with the scene of a road traffic accident at Luton.
John Stephen Simmons
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Police
Died 5 August 2006, aged 27
Killed in a road accident while travelling home from duty after policing a football match at Luton when his motorcycle crashed at Houghton Conquest.
Jonathan Charles Henry
Police Constable
Bedfordshire Police
Died 11 June 2007, aged 36
The officer and others attended a report of a member of the public being stabbed in the street in the early morning at Luton and in attempting to arrest the knifeman he was stabbed and fatally wounded.
Lest we Forget
Last updated 11 June 2007
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