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  • National Police Memorial Day

    This coming Sunday is National Police Memorial Day so can I ask that you spare a minute for those officers from the following forces that died as a result of the conflict:

    Royal Ulster Constabulary (GC)
    Police Service of Northern Ireland
    Ulster Special Constabulary
    Belfast Harbour Police
    Metropolitan Police
    North Yorkshire Police

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    ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY - ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY ULSTER SPECIAL CONSTABULARY - BELFAST HARBOUR POLICE
    In memory of those police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of acts of violence since 1900, while serving in the six counties of Northern Ireland, showing the method of killing and the city or county in which they died.


    Royal Irish Constabulary

    Year Rank Name Cause County/City
    1920 D/Sgt Denis Moroney Shot Londonderry City
    1920 Sgt Timothy Holland Shot Armagh
    1920 H/Con Samuel Perrott Stoned Belfast City
    1920 Dist/In Oswald Swanzy Shot Antrim
    1920 Const James Munnelly Shot Tyrone
    1920 Const Thomas Leonard Shot Belfast City
    1920 Const John Flaherty Shot Londonderry City
    1920 Sgt Samuel Lucas Shot Fermanagh
    1920 H/Con John Kearney Shot Down
    1921 Sgt John Kemp Bomb Armagh
    1921 Const Thomas Heffron Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Michael Quinn Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Walter Cooper Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Robert Crooks Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const John McIntosh Shot Belfast City
    1921 H/Con John Boyd Shot Down
    1921 Sgt John Higgins Shot Londonderry City
    1921 Const Michael Kenny Bomb Londonderry City
    1921 Cadet John Bales Shot Belfast City
    1921 Cadet Ernest Bolam Shot Belfast City
    1921 Sgt Peter McDonagh Shot Tyrone
    1921 Sgt Michael Burke Shot Londonderry
    1921 Const James Glover Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Tomothy Galvin Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Thomas Conlon Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const Michael Gorman Beaten Londonderry City
    1921 Const Francis Hill Shot Belfast City
    1922 Const James Cullen Shot Belfast City
    1922 Const Patrick O'Connor Shot Belfast City
    1922 Sgt Christopher Clarke Shot Belfast City
    1922 Sgt Patrick Early Shot Armagh
    1922 Const George Turner Shot Belfast City
    1922 Sgt John Bruin Shot Belfast City
    1922 Const John Harvey Shot Londonderry
    1922 Sgt Frederick Frizelle Shot Londonderry
    1922 Const John Collins Shot Belfast City
    1922 Const William Heaslip Shot Belfast City
    1922 Const Henry O'Brien Shot Belfast City

    Ulster Special Constabulary

    1921 S/Con Robert Compston Shot Armagh
    1921 S/Con John Cummings Bomb Down
    1921 S/Sgt William Gordon Bomb Fermanagh
    1921 S/Sgt Samuel Nixon Shot Fermanagh
    1921 S/Con John Fluke Shot Armagh
    1921 S/Con George Graham Shot Down
    1921 S/Con Robert Coulter Shot Fermanagh
    1921 S/Con James Hall Shot Fermanagh
    1921 S/Con George Lyness Shot Down
    1921 S/Con Thomas Sturdy Shot Belfast City
    1921 S/Con Hugh Gabbie Shot Down
    1921 S/Con William Lyttle Beaten Londonderry City
    1922 S/Con Charles McFadden Shot Tyrone
    1922 S/Sgt William Dougherty Shot Monaghan
    1922 S/Con James Lewis Shot Monaghan
    1922 S/Con William McFarland Shot Monaghan
    1922 S/Con Robert McMahon Shot Monaghan
    1922 S/Con Hector Stewart Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con Alexander Kirkpatrick Shot Londonderry City
    1922 S/Con Samuel Laird Shot Tyrone
    1922 S/Con George Chittick Shot Tyrone
    1922 S/Con William Chermside Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con Thomas Cunningham Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con James Harper Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con David Allen Shot Down
    1922 S/Con Thomas Hall Shot Belfast City
    1922 SHC Alexander Compton Fall Armagh
    1922 S/Con James Plumb Shot Fermanagh
    1922 S/Con Robert Cardwell Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con Thomas Hunter Shot Londonderry
    1922 S/Con Edward Hegarty Shot Londonderry
    1922 S/Con William McKnight Shot Tyrone
    1922 S/Con Mathaniel McCoo Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con William Milligan Shot Tyrone
    1922 S/Con James Murphy Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con George Connor Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con Herbert Martin Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con Albert Rickerby Shot Fermanagh
    1922 S/Con John Megarrity Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con Andrew Roulston Shot Belfast City
    1922 S/Con Thomas Dobson Shot Fermanagh
    1922 S/Con Thomas Sheridan Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con Thomas Russel Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con William Mitchell Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con Samuel Young Shot Armagh
    1922 S/Con Samuel Hayes Shot Belfast City
    1942 S/Con Samuel Hamilton Shot Tyrone
    1942 S/Con James Lyons Shot Belfast City

    Belfast Harbour Police

    1921 S/Con Alfred Craig Shot Belfast City
    1921 Const John McHenry Shot Belfast City
    1978 Const Edward Ferguson Shot Belfast City

    Royal Ulster Constabulary

    1933 Const John Ryan Shot Belfast City
    1933 Const Charles Anderson Shot Belfast City
    1940 H/Con Thomas Dempsey Shot Londonderry
    1942 Const Patrick Murphy Shot Belfast City
    1942 Const Thomas Forbes Shot Tyrone
    1942 Const James Laird Shot Tyrone
    1943 Const Patrick McCarthy Shot Belfast City
    1956 Const John Scally Shot Fermanagh
    1957 Const Thomas Gregg Shot Armagh
    1957 Sgt Arthur Ovens Bomb Tyrone
    1958 Const Henry Ross Bomb Armagh
    1961 Const Norman Anderson Shot Fermanagh
    1961 Const William Hunter Shot Armagh
    1969 Const Victor Arbuckle Shot Belfast City
    1970 Const Samuel Donaldson Bomb Armagh
    1970 Const Robert Millar Car Bomb Armagh
    1971 D/Insp Cecil Patterson Shot Belfast City
    1971 Const Robert Buckley Shot Belfast City
    1971 Const Robert Leslie Shot Tyrone
    1971 Const Cecil Cunningham Shot Belfast City
    1971 Const John Haslett Shot Belfast City
    1971 Sgt Ronald Dodd Shot Antrim
    1971 Insp Alfred Devlin Bomb Belfast City
    1971 D/Con Stanley Corry Shot Belfast City
    1971 D/Con William Russell Shot Belfast City
    1971 Sgt Dermot Hurley Shot Belfast City
    1971 Const Thomas Moore Shot Belfast City
    1972 R/Con Raymond Denham Shot Belfast City
    1972 Sgt Peter Gilgunn Shot Londonderry
    1972 Const David Montgomery Shot Londonderry City
    1972 Const Raymond Carroll Shot Belfast City
    1972 Sgt Thomas Morrow Shot Armagh
    1972 Const William Logan Shot Tyrone
    1972 Const Ernest McAllister Bomb Belfast City
    1972 Const Bernard O'Neill Bomb Belfast City
    1972 Const Samuel Houston Shot Down
    1972 Const Robert Laverty Shot Belfast City
    1972 R/Con Robert Gibson Bomb Belfast City
    1972 Const Andrew Harron Shot Belfast City
    1972 R/Con Joseph Calvin Car Bomb Fermanagh
    1972 Const Robert Keys Rocket Fermanagh
    1972 Const James Nixon Shot Belfast City
    1972 Const George Chambers Shot Armagh
    1973 Sgt David Dorsett Car Bomb Antrim
    1973 R/Con Henry Sandford Landmine Tyrone
    1973 Const Mervyn Wilson Car Bomb Londonderry
    1973 Const Charles Morrison Shot Tyrone
    1973 Const William Wylie Shot Antrim
    1973 Const Ronald Macauley Shot Antrim
    1973 Const David Purvis Shot Fermanagh
    1973 R/Con William MvElveen Shot Armagh
    1973 R/Con William Campbell Shot Belfast City
    1973 D/Con John Doherty Shot Donegal
    1973 Const Robert Megaw Shot Armagh
    1973 D/Con George Rolston Car Bomb Down
    1973 Const Michael Logue Shot Belfast City
    1974 R/Con Jogn Rodgers Shot Antrim
    1974 R/Con William Baggley Shot Londonderry
    1974 Const Thomas McClinton Shot Belfast City
    1974 Const Cyril Wilson Shot Armagh
    1974 Sgt Frederick Robinson Car Bomb Antrim
    1974 Const Thomas McCall Shot Armagh
    1974 Const Thomas Bell Shot Belfast City
    1974 Const John Ross Shot Belfast City
    1974 Const John Forsythe Bomb Armagh
    1974 Sgt Daniel O'Connor Shot Belfast City
    1974 D/Insp Peter Flanagan Shot Tyrone
    1974 Insp William Elliot Shot Antrim
    1974 R/Con Arthur Henderson Bomb Tyrone
    1974 Const Robert Forde Bomb Armagh
    1974 Const David McNeice Shot Armagh
    1975 Sgt George Coulter Shot Tyrone
    1975 WRC Mildren Harrison Bomb Down
    1975 Const Paul Gray Shot Londonderry
    1975 Const Noel Davis Car Bomb Londonderry
    1975 D/Con Andrew Johnston Bomb Armagh
    1975 Const Robert McPherson Shot Londonderry
    1975 D/Con David Love Bomb Londonderry
    1975 R/Con Andrew Baird Bomb Armagh
    1975 R/Con Joseph Clements Landmine Tyrone
    1975 R/Con Samuel Clarke Shot Tyrone
    1975 Sgt Patrick Maxwell Shot Tyrone
    1976 R/Con William Evans Shot Londonderry
    1976 Insp George Bell Bomb Belfast City
    1976 D/Con Neville Cummings Bomb Belfast City
    1976 Sgt James Blakely Shot Belfast City
    1976 Insp William Murtagh Shot Belfast City
    1976 R/Con William Hamer Shot Londonderry
    1976 R/Con William Crooks Shot Tyrone
    1976 R/Con Thomas Evans Bomb Fermanagh
    1976 Sgt James Hunter Shot Down
    1976 R/Con Francis Kettles Bomb Fermanagh
    1976 Sgt Henry Keys Shot Fermanagh
    1976 R/Con Kenneth Nelosn Shot Tyrone
    1976 Const John McCambridge Shot Tyrone
    1976 WRC Linda Baggley Shot Londonderry City
    1976 D/Con Ronald McAdam Shot Belfast City
    1976 Const Thomas Cush Shot Armagh
    1976 Const James Heaney Shot Belfast City
    1976 Sgt Albert Craig Shot Armagh
    1976 R/Con Albert McKay Car Bomb Londonderry
    1976 D/Con Noel McCabe Shot Belfast City
    1976 R/Con Joseph Scott Shot Tyrone
    1976 Const Norman Campbell Shot Armagh
    1976 R/Con Samuel Armour Car Bomb Londonderry
    1977 R/Con William Greer Car Bomb Antrim
    1977 D/Con Patrick McNulty Shot Londonderry City
    1977 R/Con Robert Harrison Shot Down
    1977 R/Con Samuel McKane Shot Antrim
    1977 Insp James Cobb Shot Armagh
    1977 Sgt Joseph Campbell Shot Antrim
    1977 Const William Brown Shot Fermanagh
    1977 Const John McCracken Shot Londonderry
    1977 Const Kenneth Sheehan Shot Londonderry
    1977 R/Con Robert North Shot Tyrone
    1977 Const Samuel Davison Shot Tyrone
    1977 Const Kenneth Lynch Shot Tyrone
    1977 R/Con Hugh Martin Shot Tyrone
    1977 R/Con David Morrow Shot Tyrone
    1978 R/Con Gordon Crothers Bomb Down
    1978 Const Charles Simpson Shot Londonderry City
    1978 R/Con John Moore Bomb Antrim
    1978 Const Laird McAllister Shot Antrim
    1978 R/Con Robert Struthers Shot Londonderry City
    1978 Const Hugh McConnell Shot Armagh
    1978 Const William Turbitt Shot Armagh
    1978 R/Con Jacob Rankin Shot Tyrone
    1978 R/Con John Lamont Shot Antrim
    1978 R/Con Howard Donaghy Shot Tyrone
    1979 Const Richard Baird Bomb Down
    1979 Const Paul Gray Bomb Down
    1979 R/Con Robert Lockhart Bomb Down
    1979 Const Noel Webb Bomb Down
    1979 D/Con Norman Prue Shot Fermanagh
    1979 R/Con David Wray Shot Londonderry City
    1979 R/Con David Dunne Shot Armagh
    1979 Supt Stanley Hanna Bomb Armagh
    1979 Const Kevin Thompson Bomb Armagh
    1979 R/Con John Scott Shot Tyrone
    1979 Const George Walsh Shot Armagh
    1979 Const Derek Davidson Shot Belfast City
    1979 Const John Davidson Shot Belfast City
    1979 R/Con Stanley Hazelton Shot Monaghan
    1980 R/Con Robert Crilly Shot Fermanagh
    1980 R/Con William Purse Shot Belfast City
    1980 Const William Howe Bomb Fermana
    1980 Const Joseph Rose Bomb Fermanagh
    1980 R/Con Bernard Montgomery Shot Belfast City
    1980 Const William McGill Shot Belfast City
    1980 R/Con Frederick Wilson Shot Belfast City
    1980 R/Con William Allen Shot Armagh
    1980 R/Con Thomas Johnston Shot Fermanagh
    1981 R/Con Lindsay McDougall Shot Belfast City
    1981 R/Con James Stronge Shot Armagh
    1981 R/Con Charles Lewis Shot Belfast City
    1981 R/Con Alexander Scott Shot Belfast City
    1981 Const Kenneth Acheson Car Bomb Armagh
    1981 Const Gary Martin Bomb Belfast City
    1981 Const Philip Ellis Shot Belfast City
    1981 Const Samuel Vallely Rocket Belfast City
    1981 Const Mervyn Robinson Shot Armagh
    1981 R/Con Colin Dunlop Shot Belfast City
    1981 R/Con Christopher Kyle Shot Tyrone
    1981 Const Neal Quinn Shot Down
    1981 Const John Smyth Bomb Tyrone
    1981 Const Andrew Woods Bomb Tyrone
    1981 Const William Evans Bomb Tyrone
    1981 Const Stuart Montgomery Bomb Tyrone
    1981 R/Con John Proctor Shot Londonderry
    1981 Const George Stewart Shot Down
    1981 Const Alexander Black Rocket Belfast City
    1981 R/Con Silas Lyttle Shot Tyrone
    1981 Const William Coulter Bomb Belfast City
    1982 Insp Norman Duddy Shot Londonderry City
    1982 Sgt David Brown Shot Belfast City
    1982 Const Samuel Caskey Shot Londonderry City
    1982 D/Con David Reeves Bomb Londonderry City
    1982 R/Con John Eagleson Shot Tyrone
    1982 R/Con Charles Crothers Shot Londonderry City
    1982 Const Paul Hamilton Bomb Armagh
    1982 Const Alan McCloy Bomb Armagh
    1982 Sgt John Quinn Bomb Armagh
    1982 D/Con Garry Ewing Car Bomb Fermanagh
    1982 R/Con Samuel Corkey Shot Armagh
    1982 R/Con Ronald Irwin Shot Armagh
    1983 Sgt Eric Brown Shot Down
    1983 R/Con Bernard Quinn Shot Down
    1983 R/Con John Olphert Shot Londonderry
    1983 R/Con William Magill Shot Down
    1983 Sgt William Wilson Bomb Armagh
    1983 Const Thomas McCormack Shot Belfast City
    1983 R/Con Frederick Morton Shot Down
    1983 Const Gerald Cathcart Shot Belfast City
    1983 R/Con Colin Carson Shot Tyrone
    1983 Const John K Wasson Shot Armagh
    1983 R/Con James Gerguson Shot Down
    1983 R/Con William Finlay Shot Down
    1983 Const John Hallawell Shot Londonderry City
    1983 Sgt Stephen Fyfe Bomb Belfast City
    1983 Insp John Martin Bomb Belfast City
    1983 R/Con John McFadden Shot Antrim
    1983 R/Con William Fitzpatrick Shot Down
    1983 Const Paul Clarke Mortar Tyrone
    1984 R/Con William Fullerton Shot Down
    1984 Const Thomas Bingham Landmine Armagh
    1984 Sgt William Savage Landmine Armagh
    1984 Const Michael Dawson Bomb Belfast City
    1984 R/Con Trevow Elliott Landmine Armagh
    1984 Const William Gray Landmine Armagh
    1984 Const Michael Todd Shot Belfast City
    1984 Sgt William McDonald Bomb Belfast City
    1984 Sgt Malcolm White Landmine Tyrone
    1985 Sgt John Murphy Shot Armagh
    1985 R/Con Geoffrey Campbell Mortar Down
    1985 Ch/In Alexander Donaldson Mortar Down
    1985 D/Sgt John Dowd Mortar Down
    1985 WDC Ivy Kelly Mortar Down
    1985 R/Con Paul McFerran Mortar Down
    1985 W/Con Rosemary McGookin Mortar Down
    1985 R/Con Sean McHenry Mortar Down
    1985 R/Con Denis Price Mortar Down
    1985 Const David Topping Mortar Down
    1985 Sgt Hugh McCormac Shot Fermanagh
    1985 R/Con John Bell Shot Down
    1985 R/Con Michael Kay Bomb Down
    1985 Const David Baird Bomb Armagh
    1985 W/con Tracy Doak Bomb Armagh
    1985 R/Con Stephen Rodgers Bomb Armagh
    1985 Insp William Wilson Bomb Armagh
    1985 R/Con William Agnew Shot Londonderry
    1985 Const William Gilliland Bomb Fermanagh
    1985 Insp Patrick Vance Shot Down
    1985 Const David Hanson Landmine Armagh
    1985 R/Con William Clements Shot Tyrone
    1985 Const George Gilliland Shot Tyrone
    1986 Const James McCandless Bomb Armagh
    1986 R/Con Michael Williams Bomb Armagh
    1986 D/Con Derek Breen Shot Fermanagh
    1986 Insp James Hazlett Shot Down
    1986 Const David McBride Bomb Armagh
    1986 Const William Smyth Bomb Armagh
    1986 Const John McVitty Shot Fermanagh
    1986 Const Theophileus Allen Shot Down
    1986 Const Karl Blackbourne Shot Down
    1986 Sgt Peter Kilpatrick Shot Down
    1986 R/Con Desmond Dobbin Mortar Belfast City
    1986 Const Derek Patterson Shot Belfast City
    1987 R/Con Ivan Crawford Bomb Fermanagh
    1987 R/Con Peter Nesbitt Bomb Belfast City
    1987 D/Sgt John Bennison Bomb Londonderry City
    1987 D/Insp George Wilson Bomb Londonderry City
    1987 R/Con George Shaw Shot Down
    1987 R/Con Frederick Armstrong Shot Antrim
    1987 R/Con Robert McLean Shot Antrim
    1987 Insp David Ead Shot Down
    1987 Sgt Thomas Cooke Shot Londonderry City
    1987 Const Samuel McLean Shot Donegal
    1987 Sgt Robert Guthrie Shot Belfast City
    1987 Const Norman Kennedy Shot Antrim
    1987 D/Con Ernest Carson Shot Belfast City
    1987 D/Con Michael Malone Shot Belfast City
    1987 R/Con Winston Finlay Shot Londonderry
    1987 R/Con Edward Armstrong Bomb Fermanagh
    1988 Const Colin Gilmore Bomb Belfast City
    1988 Const Clive Graham Shot Londonderry City
    1988 D/Con John Warnock Car Bomb Antrim
    1988 Const John Larmour Shot Belfast City
    1988 R/Con Hugh McCrone Shot Fermanagh
    1988 R/Con William Monteith Shot Tyrone
    1989 Const Stephen Montgomery Bomb Tyrone
    1989 Ch/Sup Henry Breen Shot Armagh
    1989 Supt Robert Buchanan Shot Armagh
    1989 R/Con David Black Car Bomb Tyrone
    1989 Const Norman Annett Shot Londonderry City
    1989 R/Con Alexander Bell Bomb Antrim
    1989 Supt Alwyn Harris Car Bomb Antrim
    1989 Const Michael Marshall Shot Armagh
    1990 Insp Mervyn Monteith Shot Armagh
    1990 R/Con George Starrett Shot Armagh
    1990 Const Harold Beckett Shot Belfast City
    1990 Const Gary Meyer Shot Belfast City
    1990 Const William Hanson Landmine Armagh
    1990 R/Con David Sterritt Landmine Armagh
    1990 R/Con Joshua Willis Landmine Armagh
    1990 Const Louis Robinson Shot Down
    1990 Const Samuel Todd Shot Belfast City
    1990 D/Insp William Murphy Shot Armagh
    1990 R/Con Thomas Taylor Shot Armagh
    1990 R/Con Wilfred Wethers Shot Armagh
    1991 D/Con John McGarry Car Bomb Antrim
    1991 Sgt Samuel McCrum Shot Antrim
    1991 Sgt Stephen Gillespie Rocket Belfast City
    1991 R/Con Douglas Carruthers Car Bomb Fermanagh
    1991 Const Edward Spence Shot Belfast City
    1991 Const Erik Clarke Mortar Londonderry
    1992 W/Con Colleen McMurray Mortar Down
    1992 Const James Douglas Shot Belfast City
    1992 R/Con Alan Corbett Shot Fermanagh
    1993 Const Michael Ferguson Shot Londonderry City
    1993 R/Con Reginald Williamson Car Bomb Armagh
    1993 Const Jonathan Reid Shot Armagh
    1993 R/Con Brian Woods Shot Down
    1993 Const William Beacom Shot Fermanagh
    1993 R/Con Ernest Smith Shot Fermanagh
    1994 Const William Beacom Rocket Belfast City
    1994 Const John Haggan Shot Belfast City
    1994 Const Gregory Pollock Mortar Londonderry City
    1995 Const Arthur Seymour Shot Tyrone
    1997 Const Darren Bradshaw Shot Belfast City
    1997 Const Robert Taylor Beaten Antrim
    1997 Const Robert Graham Shot Armagh
    1997 R/Con David Johnston Shot Armagh
    1998 Const Francis O'Reilly Bomb Armagh
    2000 R/Con William Thompson Vehicle Belfast City


    Ranks
    Cadet: Officer cadet Const/Con/C: Constable
    Ch: Chief D: Detective
    Insp/In/I: Inspector H: Head
    S: Special R: Reserve
    Supt: Superintendent Sgt: Sergeant
    W: Woman

    http://www.ukpolice.org/rucroll/index.htm

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    • #3
      Glenn Thomas Goodman

      Special Constable

      North Yorkshire Police

      Died 7 June 1992, aged 37

      While on mobile patrol with a regular officer, they were questioning two men in a car in the early hours near Tadcaster when, without warning, both officers were shot and he was fatally wounded. The males were part of an IRA ASU.

      Posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct.
      A memorial stone was erected at the scene by the Police Memorial Trust.

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      • #4
        Metropolitan Police

        WPC Jane Philippa Arbuthnot

        Died 17 December 1983, aged 22

        Sgt Noel Joseph Lane

        Died 17 December 1983, aged 28

        Insp Stephen John Dodd

        Died 24 December 1983, aged 34

        All fatally injured in an explosion while investigating a terrorist car bomb.
        A warning of the bomb came when a man using an IRA code word telephoned the central London branch of the Samaritans organisation at 12:44. The caller said there were bombs inside and outside Harrods specifying the registration number of the car the device was in, but not its make or colour. Four police officers in a car, a dog handler, and an officer on foot approached the car when the bomb went off. The police car absorbed much of the blast, probably reducing other casualties. Six people were killed, three passers-by (including one citizen of the United States), and three Metropolitan Police officers. Those killed were: Philip Geddes journalist, 24, Kenneth Salvesen 28, Jasmine Cochrane-Patrick 25, Police sergeant Noel Lane 28, and Police constable Jane Arbuthnot 22. Police inspector Stephen Dodd,34, was fatally injured and died 24 December. Police constable Jon Gordon survived, but lost both legs and part of a hand in the blast. The PIRA claimed that the bomb had not been authorised by them.

        **********

        Exp/O Roger Philip Goad BEM

        Died 29 August 1975, aged 40

        Posthumously awarded the George Cross for Gallantry.

        Captain Roger Philip Goad, GC, BEM was an Explosives Officer with the Metropolitan Police Force who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 29 August 1975. He had previously been awarded the British Empire Medal.

        Following a telephone tip-off, police officers found a suspicious package placed in front of a shop in Kensington. A former British Army officer, Goad was the senior bomb disposal expert on the scene. Captain Goad, a married man with two children, had been decorated for gallantry while serving in the Army. Goad attempted to defuse the bomb but it exploded, killing him instantly. The bomb, fitted with an anti handling device, had been placed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members.

        The bomb had been placed by the active service unit responsible for the 1974 – 1975 terror campaign in London, who were later captured at the conclusion of the Balcombe Street siege. Captain Goad was 40 years old at the time of his death. His citation was published in the London Gazette of 1 October 1976


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        Exp/O Kenneth Robert Howorth

        Died 26 October 1981, aged 49

        Posthumously awarded the George Medal for Gallantry.

        Kenneth Howorth served 23 years with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) with postings to Austria, Japan, Tripoli, Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong plus various United Kingdom bases. In 1973 he joined the Metropolitan Police as a civilian Explosives Officer. On 26 October 1981, he was killed while attempting to defuse a booby-trapped improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the IRA in a Wimpy burger restaurant, Oxford Street, London

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        PC Stephen Andrew Tibble

        Died 26 February 1975, aged 21

        Posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Gallantry

        During a chase through the Barons Court area of London, Stephen Tibble was shot and killed by Liam Quinn, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
        Quinn, a U.S. citizen from a Irish Republican family in San Francisco who had immersed himself in all things Irish, including adopting an Irish accent. A Provisional IRA volunteer, he had replaced Brendan Dowd as a member of the IRA Active Service Unit operating in London at the time.

        Posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Gallantry

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        • #5
          WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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          • #6
            I hope that you don't mind me posting this on the thread but I would like to place the following for a friend from a long time ago:

            PC Laurence Peter Brown

            Died 28 August 1990, aged 27

            Shot dead with a sawn-off shotgun as he approached a suspect in Pownall Rd, London E8.

            'Rest Easy Loz, always in our memories'


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            • #7
              Why on earth would anyone mind you posting that on this site Slops ... if anyone objects then I'd suggest that they're in the wrong place mate.

              I have again been invited to participate at the RUC Memorial Service on Sunday and will do so with pride.

              Not all were known to us, but each one a colleague.

              We Will Remember Them

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              • #8
                Very brave people, the respective communities owe them and their families a great deal.

                WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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                • #9
                  WE Will Remember Them.

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                  • #10
                    Never Forgotten

                    Capt

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                    • #11
                      Oh my God! So many young lives cut short and for what? So that the perpertrators can be released early without serving the sentences they were lawfully given :twisted: :twisted: .

                      We will remember them.




                      Slops, it this a Northern Ireland remembrance or is it nationwide? Is there a commemoration ceremony/service?
                      GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND KEEP THEM SAFE

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                      • #12
                        WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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                        • #13
                          Merc, not meaning to answer on Slops' behalf, but as it's National Police Memorial Day I think there are memorial Services being held throughout the country. I wouldn't know where they're being held though so I can't help you there.

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                          • #14
                            LEST WE FORGET

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                            • #15
                              The main service this year is in Cardiff......I think next year it's Northern Ireland

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