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| Female Police Roll of Honour Lest We Forget
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Bertha Massey Gleghorn Fatally injured in an explosion, while on duty during an enemy air attack, when Tottenham Court Road Police Station was struck by a flying bomb. |
Catherine Phyllis Godfrey While cycling to Hinckley Police Station in a severe gale late at night on 23 April, having been recalled to duty to deal with a violent female prisoner, she collided with a fallen tree and sustained fatal injuries. |
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Myra Waller Fatally injured on 19 June, while attending an emergency call to the scene of a road accident, when her traffic patrol car was in collision with another car at Halton near Lancaster. |
June Randell Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty, when her lightweight motorcycle was in collision with an articulated lorry which turned across her path. |
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Carol Waddington Died from a fractured skull sustained when the car in which she was a passenger collided with a stationary lorry at Prestwich while returning to Rochdale from the police training college at Bruche. |
Ann Lakey Died as a result of injuries received when the police patrol car in which she was an observer was involved in an accident while answering an emergency alarm call. |
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Lesley Anne Beet While with a supervised party of cadets canoeing on the River Chelmer, her canoe capsized and despite attempts to save her she was drowned. |
Mildred Ann Harrison While on foot patrol with a colleague in Bangor, Co. Down, they were passing licensed premises when a canister bomb, placed by terrorists on the window sill, exploded killing her almost immediately. |
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Margaret Cherry Campbell Died from serious injuries received on 1 November while she was assisting other officers at the scene of a road traffic accident in Londonderry when they were struck by a speeding car. |
Linda Emmeline Baggley While on foot patrol duty with a colleague in Londonderry late at night on 23 May they were both shot at point blank range in a terrorist attack and she received gunshot wounds from which she later died. |
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Shirley Moses While on mobile patrol in Sunderland the police car she was driving skidded and crashed through a fence, a section of which broke through the car windscreen and pierced her skull killing her instantly. |
Elizabeth Burton Killed in a road accident along with four colleagues and 25 injured when the coach taking them to the Police Federation Conference at Blackpool suffered a brake failure and overturned near Wakefield. |
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Lillian Sullivan Killed in a road accident along with four colleagues and 25 injured when the coach taking them to the Police Federation Conference at Blackpool suffered a brake failure and overturned near Wakefield. |
Isabella Janet Harris Killed with two other officers and a Ministry of Transport Examiner, when their traffic patrol car collided with one lorry and was thrown into the path of another on the opposite carriageway of the A74 near Johnstonebridge. |
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Sharon Bury While with a supervised party of Cadets during an adventure training exercise at Foreland Point, North Devon, she was swept off the rocks and despite attempts at rescue was washed out to sea and drowned. |
Joanne Margaret Best While a member of a mobile patrol in the early hours, together with four colleagues she was fatally injured in a road traffic accident when their police landrover collided with a lorry in Belfast. |
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Martha Doreen Elizabeth Harkness While with other officers operating a vehicle checkpoint in the early hours near Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry she was struck and fatally injured by one of two vehicles which failed to stop at the checkpoint. |
Mabel Elizabeth Cheyne Fatally injured together with two colleagues when their police vehicle went out of control and struck a bridge wall while responding to an emergency call concerning an assault at a pub in Armagh City. |
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Mandy Dawn Rayner Killed when the police patrol car, in which she was the observer and which was stationary waiting to assist colleagues, was deliberately rammed by the driver of a vehicle being pursued by police at Royston late at night. |
Angela Bradley While working together with several other officers, attempting to rescue a drowning man from a very rough sea at Blackpool, she and two colleagues were swept away by the waves and all three and the man were drowned. |
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Jane Philippa Arbuthnot While investigating a reported terrorist car bomb and evacuating the area outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, the device exploded and she was killed together with a Sergeant and an Inspector who died later. |
Joanne Mary Cochran Fatally injured while she was the observer in a patrol car when her driver swerved to avoid an obstruction in the road and the vehicle overturned during an early morning vehicle pursuit at Oxford. |
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Yvonne Joyce Fletcher Whilst policing a political demonstration outside a foreign embassy in St. James's Square, she was shot in the back and fatally wounded when automatic weapons were fired at the crowd from inside the embassy building. |
Ivy Winifred Kelly Killed together with eight other officers by the explosion of a mortar bomb when Newry RUC Station came under heavy mortar attack by terrorists and the canteen was destroyed by a direct hit. |
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Rosemary Elizabeth McGookin Killed together with eight other officers by the explosion of a mortar bomb when Newry RUC Station came under heavy mortar attack by terrorists and the canteen was destroyed by a direct hit. |
Tracy Ellen Doak Killed together with three colleagues in their police patrol car by the explosion of a terrorist bomb placed in a trailer near the road where they were escorting a security vehicle at Killeen, Newry. |
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Deborah Leat Killed when her police patrol car went out of control on a bend and crashed into a tree while pursuing a vehicle which had failed to stop in the early hours at Speedwell. |
Jacqueline Ann Brown Died from serious injuries sustained in the early hours when she lost control of her patrol car which crashed on a bend in wet weather while driving a prisoner and escort at Harpenden. |
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Jo-Ann Jennings Fatally injured when the police patrol car in which she was the observer left the road and collided with a tree near Brentwood while responding to disturbances during the early hours. |
Colleen Linda McMurray While on mobile patrol late at night in Newry, Co Down, a horizontally fired mortar bomb struck her police vehicle and she received injuries from which she died the following day. |
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Gina Corin Rutherford Drowned when the patrol car in which she was observer in the early hours skidded off an icy road and plunged upside down into the river at Wath upon Dearne near Barnsley trapping her inside. |
Gail Doreen Pirnie Collapsed and died from heart failure, having just completed an exercise, while undergoing a Baton Training course at the Peel Centre, Hendon. |
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Sandra Jane Edwards 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. |
Melanie Igoe 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. |
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Philippa Jane Parish Fatally injured, while observer in a police area car responding to an alarm call in the early hours, when the driver lost control of the vehicle avoiding an object in the road and collided with a brick wall at Winchester. |
Vanessa Rosemary Carroll Fatally injured in a road traffic accident when she was forced to swerve to avoid an oncoming car and was thrown from her vehicle, while serving with the British Police Contingent in Bosnia. |
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Nina Alexandra MacKay As a member of a Territorial Support Group she forced entry to a dwelling flat at Stratford, in order to arrest a violent and deranged wanted man, whereupon she was stabbed in the chest and fatally wounded. |
Jacqueline Ann Haswell Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to work from her home in Stewarton. |
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Alison Armitage While on plain clothes duty keeping observation on a stolen car in Oldham, a suspect returned to the vehicle and, in attempting to stop him driving away she went to the rear of the car, which reversed and knocked her down then ran over her causing multiple injuries from which she later died. |
Sarah Jane Minskip Having finished an extended tour of night duty, after dealing with a prisoner at Taunton, and was travelling home, when her motorcycle was in collision with a vehicle at Ashill and she sustained fatal head injuries. |
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Catherine Sutcliffe Collapsed on 8th August while attending a routine incident on duty and was hospitalised until her subsequent death from a cerebral haemorrhage. |
Cheryl Rosemarie Lloyd Killed when the patrol car she was driving collided with a stationary lorry while she was attending an urgent call at Ipswich. |
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Siobhan McCann Fatally injured whilst driving in a convoy of armoured police Land Rovers en route to a public order operation when her vehicle went out of control and crashed on the road between Moneymore and Desertmartin, Co. Londonderry. |
Sharon Beshenivsky While responding with a colleague to a personal attack alarm at a travel agency in Bradford, the officers were confronted by three armed robbers leaving the premises, shots were fired and she was hit in the chest and killed and her colleague injured. |
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Karen Balfour Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty at Duns when her car was in collision with a van near Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders. |
Deborah Adele Harman-Burton Killed in a road accident, whilst travelling home from night duty with another officer, when the car in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision near Kenilworth. |
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Stacey Victoria Pyke 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. |
Kirsty Allan Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty at Oakley when her car lost control on an icy road and overturned near Dunfermline. |
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Katie Mitchell Killed in a motorcycle accident while travelling to report for day duty at Tonbridge when she lost control of her machine and was then struck by a car at Goudhurst. |
Diane Christine Donald Killed in a road traffic accident while travelling to report for duty in the early morning when her car left the carriageway of the M8 motorway in icy road conditions and struck a tree near Glasgow Airport. |
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Laura Ruth Williams Collapsed and fell unconscious while on duty at Greenwich Park Police Station, she was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of the following day, having suffered a brain haemorrhage. |
Karen Paterson Whilst travelling to report for duty her vehicle was in a collision with another. She died at the scene. |
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Fiona Bone Called to reports of a burglary in Mottram which turned out to be a hoax. A male ambushed her and her colleague, using a grenade and a firearm to fatally injure her. |
Nicola Hughes Called to reports of a burglary in Mottram which turned out to be a hoax. A male ambushed her and her colleague, using a grenade and a firearm to fatally injure her. |
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Adele Cashman Responding to a street robbery and whilst in pursuit of two suspects she collapsed in Belsize Park Gardens. She was rushed to the New Free Hospital from the scene but did not recover. |
Philippa Reynolds Fatally injured when the unmarked police vehicle she was travelling in was struck by a stolen vehicle which careered through a red light. Her two colleagues were both seriously injured also. |
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