LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE
and constituent forces
Lest We Forget
William Alcock
Parish Constable
Holbeach, Lincolnshire
Died 14 July 1838, aged 68
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.
Charles William Brian
Police Constable
Lincoln City Police
Died 18 May 1935, aged 49
Died in hospital from injuries received on 13 May when he was knocked down by a car while cycling on night duty with his sergeant who was slightly injured.
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.
George Gouldby Wrighton
Police War Reserve Constable
Lincolnshire Constabulary
Died 27 January 1945, aged 42
Asphixiated in a police box after a gas main was fractured during an enemy air raid at Cleethorpes.
Allan Richard Holmes
Police Constable
Lincolnshire Constabulary
Died 21 May 1958, aged 31
Sustained fatal head injuries on the late evening of 17th May, when a tyre burst on his police motorcycle and he was thrown from the machine, while travelling to a conference point at his home at Welton.
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.
Stacey
Victoria Pyke
Police Constable
Lincolnshire Police
Died 15 January 2007, aged
20
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.
Lest We Forget