TAYSIDE POLICE
and the
former constituent forces of
Broughty Ferry Burgh Police, Dundee City Police,
Perthshire
Constabulary,
Perth City Police,
Perthshire
and Kinross-shire Constabulary,
Perth and Kinross Constabulary.
Lest We Forget
William Swan
Night Constable
Dundee City Police
Died 27 August 1868, aged 27
Found drowned in the King William Dock in Dundee, apparently having fallen into the water in the early hours while in the execution of his duty.
James Watson
Police Sergeant
Dundee City Police
Died 18 September 1870, aged 48
Killed, with the Fire Brigade Superintendent James Fyffe, while assisting with crowd control at the scene of a mill fire in Trades Lane, in the early hours, when they were buried in burning debris by the collapse of a wall.
Charles Cruickshank
Police Sergeant
Dundee City Police
Died 1 December 1882, aged 32
Collapsed and died of heart failure while on duty at Lochee Police Station.
David McBay
Inspector
Dundee City Police
Died 19 August 1893, aged 44
Died from a stab wound to the abdomen inflicted on 15 August, while attempting to arrest a deranged man, who had already shot and wounded several people, including two police officers, and was besieged in a house.
An inscribed memorial stone was erected on his grave at Balgay Cemetery.
James Graham
Police Constable
Police
Died 22 October 1894, aged 34
Collapsed and died from the rupture of a blood vessel while patrolling his beat at Abernethy.
James Paton Black
Police Constable
Dundee City Police
Died 4 November 1908, aged 21
While on foot patrol in the Earl Grey Dock, Dundee in the early hours, cries for help were heard and his helmet was later recovered from the water; his body was recovered the next day apparently having fallen in and drowned.
Adam Smith
Police Constable
Perth City Police
Died 23 April 1909, aged 25
While on plain clothes
patrol during the evening, he had occasion to chase some youths who were
illegally playing football in the street, when he collapsed and died from heart
failure.
An inscribed memorial stone
was erected by his comrades at Wellshill Cemetery, Perth.
John George Samuel
Police Constable
Broughty Ferry Burgh Police
Died 28 May 1911, aged 22
While assisting in the rescue of a colleague who had got into difficulties bathing in the River Tay, he was holding the rope attached to a lifebelt, as it was too short he waded into the river but got out of his depth and drowned.
William Dickson
Police Sergeant
Dundee City Police
Died 21 October 1911, aged 52
Collapsed and died of heart failure while patrolling his beat at night.
William MacKintosh
Police Constable
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Constabulary
Died 24 September 1930, aged 31
While on route on a motorcycle from his rural station at Ballinluig to perform duty at Perth Hunt Races, it appears he swerved to avoid a stray bullock in the road and crashed his machine, sustaining fatal head injuries.
McGregor Walker
Police Constable
Dundee City Police
Died 16 September 1932, aged 31
While conducting a road check on licences of vehicles entering and leaving the city, a motor car he had stopped was run into by a drunken driver and he was knocked down and fatally injured.
Simon Fraser Taylor
Inspector
Dundee City Police
Died 8 January 1938, aged 41
Found dead in a police box where he had collapsed while on duty.
Samuel McGowan
Police Constable
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Constabulary
Died 16 June 1940, aged 34
Found drowned in the River Tummel after being on night duty.
Robert Stirrat
Police Constable
Dundee
City Police
Died 5 May 1941, aged 24
Soon after he went to investigate a housholder's report of an unfamiliar object, believed to be an unexploded bomb, found at Dundee, he was fatally injured when an explosion occurred, blowing off both his legs and an arm.
Alexander Christie
Police Constable
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Constabulary
Died 30 May 1946, aged 36
Fatally injured in a road traffic accident while on motorcycle patrol near Kinross.
Thomas Robert Muir
Police Constable
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Constabulary
Died 8 September 1953, aged 28
Killed in a road traffic accident while on police motorcycle patrol when he collided with a motor car at Callendar.
Alexander McGregor Graham
Police Constable
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Constabulary
Died 27 August 1960 aged 27
Collapsed and died from heart failure outside Dunblane Police Station near the end of his night shift.
Donald Robertson B.E.M.
Police Sergeant
Perth and Kinross Constabulary
Died 19 December 1965, aged 45
While manning a road block on the Perth to Glasgow road, set up in the evening to recapture three escaped prisoners from Perth Prison, he was struck by a motor van, sustained multiple injuries and was killed instantly.
James Easton Berwick
Police Constable
Tayside Police
Died 19 July 1975, aged 54
Collapsed and died at Ardchoille police house while on early turn duty.
James Forbes Cumming
Police Constable
Tayside Police
Died 6 February 1980, aged 40
Collapsed and died while pushing a motor car at the scene of a road traffic accident at Dundee.
William Mathieson
Police Constable
Tayside Police
Died 26 September 1981, aged 21
Died as a result of injuries sustained on 13 August in a road traffic accident while on patrol in a police vehicle answering an emergency call of an officer requiring assistance.
Paul Richard North
Police Constable
Tayside Police
Died 17 March 1987, aged 35
Fatally injured in a road accident while on mobile patrol near Perth.
David McKay Stewart
Detective Inspector
Tayside Police
Died 19 December 1989, aged 43
Killed in a road traffic accident while driving a police vehicle.
David Edward Andrew Connor
Police Sergeant
Tayside Police
Died 31 August 2001, aged 42
Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to police headquarters.
Malcolm Whigham
Detective Constable
Tayside Police
Died 16 August 2007, aged 42
Killed in a road traffic accident when his police motorcycle was in a collision with a car at Pumpherston, near Livingston, West Lothian, while working on secondment with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.
Lest We Forget
