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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…

Constable William DUNN Shot Berrima 26 November, 1839   On 15 November, 1839 the constable was shot to death at Berrima while making an arrest. At the trial of Thomas Leary, alias Sutton, in April 1841 witness Constable Cassidy told the court that “on the day of the incident, myself and the deceased (Dunn) were…

Constable Thomas CAVANAGH Drowned Western District 2 March, 1863   The constable died by drowning in the Western District. No further details are known as yet.   The constable was born in 1840 and joined the police force on 19 October, 1861. In 1862 he became a member of the newly-formed New South Wales Police…

Constable Alexander KENNEDY Illness West Maitland 8 December, 1894   Nothing is known of the death of Constable Kennedy other than a very brief notice in the Sydney Morning Herald dated 10 December, 1894 advising that on Saturday last “Senior Constable Alexander Kennedy, who had been stationed at West Maitland for an extended period, died…

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…

Chief Constable Joseph YATES Stabbed Parramatta 14 October, 1818   In early October, 1818 a settler named Christopher Ward, who lived on the Liverpool Road near Parramatta, had a bag of sugar stolen from his home by an employee named Peter Aldamos (alias Peter Adams). On 14 October Ward was searching for Aldamos when he…