Lancashire Constabulary - Officers Killed in The Line of Duty

Officers Killed in The Line of Duty

See also: List of British police officers killed in the line of duty

The Police Memorial Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty, and since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers.

The following officers of Lancashire Constabulary are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century:

  • PC Peter Burnett, 1990 (collapsed and died attempting to disperse rioters)
  • PC Ian Wain Woodward, 1987 (shot dead)
  • Acting Sgt Walter Lacey, 1978 (collapsed and died attempting to arrest a suspect)
  • Supt Gerry Richardson GC, 1971 (shot dead attempting to arrest a gunman who had shot a fellow officer; posthumously awarded the George Cross)
  • PC Ernest Southern, 1962 (collapsed and died attending a street affray)
  • DI James O'Donnell QPM, 1958 (shot dead attempting to arrest a gunman who had shot two others; posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal)
  • PC Sydney Arthur Tysoe, 1949 (died from injuries sustained during an arrest in 1940)
  • War Reserve Constable John Towers, 1943 (died from injuries sustained in an assault)
  • PC Stewart Mungo Whillis, 1907 (died from injuries sustained in an assault in 1901)

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