NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE

 

 

Police Sergeant

North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary

Died 19 September 1890, aged 43

 

While on his rounds at Leeming, late at night, he was attacked by a man he had warned regarding his conduct earlier that evening; as he attempted to arrest the man he was shot through the neck at close range and killed.

 

 

John Henry Burdett

 

Police Constable Fireman

York Police Fire Brigade

Died 31 October 1905, aged 48

 

Pensioned on 3 July after being paralysed when, on 5 February at a fire at the Railway Station, while carrying a hose on the coal drop he fell down a shute in the darkness, breaking his back as a result of which he later died.

 

 

William L. Bell

 

Police Constable

North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary

Died 22 July 1915, aged 31

 

While returning from firearms drill at Saltburn, he examined a defective revolver and after firing a test shot he was handing it back to his sergeant when it accidentally discharged and he was shot in the body and killed.

 

 

Thomas William Sedman

 

Police Constable

London & North Eastern Railway Police

Died 12 Sepetember 1923, aged 64

 

Hit by a train and killed, apparently having stepped out of the way of one train into the track of another from the opposite direction, while patrolling on a very dark night near Barlby Sidings, Selby.

 

 

Albert Edward Wilkinson

 

Police Sergeant

York City Police

Died prior July 1942, aged 49

 

Died suddenly, his death being accelerated by the arduous work he performed in rescuing trapped people from bombed houses during the air raid on the city.

 

  

Norman Garnham

 

Acting Detective Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 2 March 1977, aged 25

 

After finishing duty late at night at Skeeby, he stopped to check a suspicious youth who ran off, he chased and caught him and was arresting him, when he was stabbed twice in the chest and fatally wounded.

 

 

David Ian Haigh

 

Police Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 17 June 1982, aged 29

 

Fatally wounded when he was shot in the head by a suspect he was questioning in a car in the early morning at Norwood Edge Plantation near Harrogate.

 

 

David Thomas Winter

 

Police Sergeant

North Yorkshire Police

Died 28 June 1982, aged 31

 

During a manhunt for the killer of Constable Haigh and others, he confronted
a suspect at Malton who drew a gun, the unarmed officer tried to evade the gunman but he was shot three times, including twice in the head, and killed.

 

 

Keith Summerbell

 

Police Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 20 September 1982, aged 26

 

Killed while undergoing police motorcycle training when his machine went out of control on a bend and he collided with an oncoming lorry.

 

 

Glenn Thomas Goodman

 

Special Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 7 June 1992, aged 37
 

While on mobile patrol with a regular officer, they were questioning two men in a car in the early hours near Tadcaster when, without warning, both officers were shot and he was fatally wounded.

 

Posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct.
A memorial stone was erected at the scene by the Police Memorial Trust.

 

 

Robert Michael Ingram

 

Police Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 27 August 1993, aged 28

 

While attending an emergency call in the early hours to a domestic incident in Scarborough, his patrol car left the road and collided with a tree in the forest of Silpho and he was fatally injured.

 

 

Glenn Robinson

 

Police Constable

North Yorkshire Police

Died 27 July 2005, aged 46

 Killed in a road accident while returning home from duty at Skipton when his motorcycle was in collision with a car on the A59 near Kettlestring.