In Memory of those police officers

who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

With the permission of and thanks to

Police Roll of Honour Trust
Registered Charity No. 1081637

CAMBRIDGESHIRE CONSTABULARY

and constituent forces

 
 

Lest we Forget

 

Constable

Borough of Huntingdon

Died 23 December 1841, aged 28

Found drowned in the River Ouse some weeks after going missing from his beat in suspicious circumstances in the early hours, when it is believed he was assaulted by several persons and thrown off a bridge into the river.

 

Richard Peake

 

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Died 18 August 1855, aged 24

Went missing from his beat at Wicken in the early hours in suspicious circumstances, he had earlier been involved in a disturbance and it was suspected he was murdered by a local gang but his body was never found.

 

Francis James Willis

Detective Sergeant

Cambridge Borough Police

Died 4 June 1930, aged 35

While questioning a student at King's College, Cambridge, about his possession of a firearm, the suspect produced a pistol and shot his tutor, the officer attempted to arrest him but was shot twice and died the next day.

A memorial plaque was erected at Cambridge Police Station.

Reginald Nicholson

Commandant

Cambridgeshire Special Constabulary

Died 15 November 1945, aged 68

William H. Edwards

 

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Died 25 November 1945, aged 44

Both officers died as a result of injuries received on 15 November when the police car in which they were travelling together to a Special Constabulary Conference was in a head-on collision with an armoured car at Melbourn.

 

Anthony Allder

Police Constable

Mid-Anglia Constabulary

Died 19 January 1966, aged 39

Died from severe head injuries received on the night of 17 January when he was in collision with a car while on bicycle patrol on his beat at Gamlingay.

 

John Spackman

Police Constable

Mid-Anglia Constabulary

Died 21 February 1967, aged 34

While on motorcycle patrol at Meldreth, he lost control of his machine, which left the road and crashed through a fence and he was thrown into a concrete post and fatally injured.

Detective Chief Inspector

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Died 23 October 1981, aged 48

Killed while returning to police headquarters after an investigation, when he lost control of his unmarked police car while overtaking a lorry and a car and his vehicle ran off the road into a Fenland waterway near Ramsey.

 

 

The officer was on foot at the rear of his marked police car on the hard shoulder of the A1 motorway near Alconbury, preparing to protect the scene of an earlier vehicle collision; a passing car spun out of control in the icy road conditions and struck PC Newbery, causing multiple injuries from which he died at the scene.