Arthur Robert James Seymour

Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 2 March 1995, aged 55

On 4 May 1973 the officer was on guard duty at Coalisland police station, Co. Tyrone; he opened the gates to admit a mobile patrol when a republican sniper fired several shots and he was hit in the head. He lay in hospital, completely paralysed and unable to communicate until he died 22 years later.

Phillip John Walters

Police Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 18 April 1995, aged 28

The officer attended a disturbance at a house in Ilford, where he was confronted by three men; during a violent struggle to arrest one of them he had managed to apply one handcuff, when he was shot in the chest and fatally wounded.

His name was inscribed on the Roll of Honour at New Scotland Yard and a memorial stone was erected by the Police Memorial Trust at the scene in Empress Avenue, Ilford

Alan George Thompson

Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 4 May 1995, aged 26

During the early hours the officer was driving a police patrol car in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, when his vehicle was in collison with a lorry and he was fatally injured.

Sandra Jane Edwards

Woman Police Constable
South Yorkshire Police
Died 10 May 1995, aged 28

Died from injuries received in the early hours of 8 May, when her traffic patrol car left the road and hit a wall, during the high speed pursuit of a suspected stolen car at Cudworth near Barnsley.

Martyn Gerrard

Police Constable
Thames Valley Police
Died 24 May 1995, aged 35

Killed while on a motorcycle refresher training course, when his machine was in collision with an agricultural vehicle on the A422 near Buckingham.

Melanie Igoe

Police Constable
Strathclyde Police
Died 30 May 1995

Killed in a road accident, while undergoing instruction on a standard traffic motorcycle training course, when she lost control of her machine on a bend.

Roger John Franklin

Police Constable
Surrey Police
Died 6 August 1995, aged 37

Killed on motorcycle patrol, while attending an emergency incident; a car had pulled in to let him pass when another vehicle pulled out causing him to hit the central reservation on the A3 at Wisley, receiving fatal injuries.

Mark Gordon Davey

Police Constable
Grampian Police
Died 29 August 1995, aged 28

Died from injuries received on 28 August when the traffic patrol car, in which he was the observer, returning from Forres to Elgin, went out of control, left the road and crashed into trees near Elgin.

George Pickburn Hammond QPM

Police Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 13 December 1995, aged 58

Stabbed in the stomach in a near fatal attack, when attempting to arrest an armed robber in Dulwich on 23 January 1985; he subsequently died ten years later of heart disease, from complications which followed the severe wounds he sustained.

Receieved the Commissioner's High Commendation for Bravery and awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1987

Robert John Dallow

Police Constable
West Midlands Police
Died 17 December 1995, aged 41

While pursuing a stolen car in the early hours at Oldbury, the police patrol car in which he was the observer, collided with another vehicle when crossing traffic lights and he was killed along with the other car driver.

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