LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE

 

 

William Alcock

 

Parish Constable

Holbeach, Lincolnshire

Died 14 July 1838

 

Violently assaulted on 29 June, while attempting to quell a riotous mob who had attacked the house of a clergyman, following Coronation Day festivities at Holbeach, and subsequently died from his injuries.

 

 

Alexander McBrian

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 1 November 1860

 

Died from injuries received in the early hours of 25 October, when he challenged a suspected poacher in fields at Wyberton who, without warning, shot him at close range with a double barreled shot gun.

 

 

Thomas Bett Gell

 

Parish Constable

Hemingby, Lincolnshire

Died 15 October 1876, aged 53

 

Having gone to the assistance of a woman being attacked by her son late in the evening,  he was repeatedly struck on the head with a rail by the man and received severe head  injuries from which he died early the next day.

 

 

William Reynolds Woolley

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 26 August 1905, aged 37

 

Collapsed and died during a violent struggle with a man he had arrested for being drunk and disorderly and was attempting to handcuff at Spilsby.

 

 

Alfred Clay

 

Police Constable Fireman

Lincoln City Police Fire Brigade

Died 24 August 1911, aged 38

 

Killed while fighting a fire in the early hours at a Lincoln motorcycle factory, when he was buried by the collapse of a wall as he ascended a ladder to the third storey.

 

 

Joseph Owen Jakes

 

Police Sergeant

Boston Borough Police

Died 25 June 1934, aged 36

 

Died from injuries received on 21 June, when he was knocked down while he was directing traffic late at night outside a circus ground.

 

 

Robert Dodds

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 6 June 1938, aged 39

 

Fatally injured when the motorcycle combination on which he was patrolling suddenly seized and he was thrown from the machine.

 

 

Arthur Sydney Showler

 

Special Constable

Boston Borough Special Constabulary

Died 8 February 1940, aged 37

 

Drowned when he fell into the dock waters at Boston while on foot patrol at night.

 

 

William Gordon Ward

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 29 May 1941, aged 20

 

Fatally injured by the detonation of an unexploded bomb, which he attempted to remove from the street after an air raid at Grimsby.

 

Police War Reserve Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 27 January 1945, aged 42

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 21 May 1958, aged 31

Ian Robert G. Mavor

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Constabulary

Died 14 June 1969, aged 23

 

Killed when the car in which he was receiving police driving instruction ran off the road and overturned also injuring three other officers.

 

 

Terence James Moncaster

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Police

Died 7 January 1977, aged 29

 

Killed, and a 17 year old female Police Cadet seriously injured, when his Traffic patrol car collided with a lorry, then went off the road, crashed through a stone wall and burst into flames near Harpswell.

 

 

Keith Whitlam

 

Detective Sergeant

Lincolnshire Police

Died 16 September 1981, aged 40

 

Killed in a road accident while driving on duty, together with two other people, when their cars collided near Lincoln.

 

 

Andrew Ian Archer

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Police

Died 8 June 1992, aged 31

 

Fatally injured in a motorcycle accident while on traffic patrol duty.

 

 

John Charles Palmer

 

Police Constable

Lincolnshire Police

Died 21 January 2002, aged 33

 

Died as a result of injuries sustained on the afternoon of 15 January, while on routine patrol, when his police car was in collision with a lorry on the A1104 between Alford and Mablethorpe.

 

 

 

Killed in a car crash when her vehicle was in collision with a car near Market Deeping whilst she was driving home after her first full night duty at Spalding.