Sergeant 3rd Class Patrick William Matthew CARMODY Fall from Building Sydney 19 April, 1931 On 30 December, 1926 Sergeant Carmody and Constable Delaney responded to a complaint of suspicious persons at a building at the corner of Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets, Sydney. The sergeant climbed a fire escape ladder at the premises, however as…
Constable Joseph Hilary Eden DONNELLY Traffic Accident Randwick 19 November, 1929 On the evening of 19 November, 1929 Constable Donnelly was struck by a car while crossing Belmore Road after finishing his shift at the Randwick Police Station. He sustained a compound fracture of the skull and was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital where…
Constable James Phillip FLYNN Shot Cordeaux Dam 9 March, 1924 Â On 9 March, 1924 Constable Flynn went to a construction site at Cordeaux Dam (where a temporary police station had been established), south of Appin, where he arrested a man named William Simpson who had broken into the office of the construction site manager…
Constable Frank McGRATH Motor Vehicle Accident Sydney 1 January, 1923 Â Â About 10pm on 1 January, 1923 Constable McGrath of the Redfern Police Station was riding on the rear of a police vehicle escorting prisoners from his station to Central Police Station. As the vehicle bumped over a rough section of tram lines at…
Constable 1st Class Andrew George BRIDGE Horse Accident Cundletown 1 December, 1920 Constable Bridge was stationed at Cundletown (Taree area) between 1917 and 1920. He passed away on 1 December, 1920 apparently from peritonitis which was the result of injuries sustained when he fell from his troop horse which shied during a patrol. (This…
Detective Sergeant 2nd Class William ROBERTSON Horse Accident Braidwood 24 October, 1918 On 19 October, 1918 the sergeant was in the Braidwood area on special assignment. On the day prior to his death, he had left Braidwood with Sergeant Face and an Army Intelligence Officer with the intention of executing a search warrant in…
Constable Edward MOLONEY Traffic Accident Sydney 12 February, 1903 In early February, 1903 the Adelaide Advertiser reported that “Constable Edward Moloney, lately residing at Surry Hills, died from injuries sustained by being knocked down and run over by a van at the intersection of Crown and Campbell Streets. The deceased was crossing Campbell Street,…
Senior Constable James Gibson MURDOCH Cholera Burrangong 25 December, 1900 Senior Constable Murdoch is recorded as having “died after he drank bad water whilst fighting bushfires”. The constable had been out for the weekend fighting bushfires before returning to Burrangong Police Station where he soon fell ill. Stricken with diarrhoea and vomiting, the constable…
Sergeant Joseph WIRRELL Drowned Maitland 18 September, 1899 It is thought that while on foot patrol in the Maitland township in the early hours of 18 September, 1899 the sergeant stumbled and fell, or slipped, into the Hunter River and drowned. When he failed to return home at the completion of his 10pm to…
Constable Walter TOMBS Horse Accident Moruya 25 November 1897 Shortly after 9am on 25 November, 1897 Constable Tombs led a troop horse from the police stables at Moruya to travel on patrol to Pedro Point. The horse, on loan from Braidwood Police, was known as a rogue and when the constable stepped…