Detective Senior Constable Alexander STRACHAN

Constable 1st Class Athol Joseph JOHNSON Stabbed Gulgong 26 April, 1958   The constable was the Lockup Keeper at Gulgong and was on duty on Anzac Day, 1958. A patron of the local RSL Club, a man named Lester Haley, had become intoxicated and argumentative with other patrons and was escorted from the club. Constable…

Sergeant JIPP Assault – Brawl Hill End 1853   The sergeant was apparently killed in a brawl at a Hill End gold miner’s camp in 1853 and was buried on the spot at a place which later became the Hill End Racecourse. A stringybark tree at the site was blazed and inscribed with the sergeant’s…

Trooper John TIPPER Horse Accident Stuart Town 18 March, 1858   The trooper was accidentally killed in a fall from his police horse at the police camp at the Wellington Road diggings (now Stuart Town). On that day the trooper and another police officer were riding back to the police camp. As they went around…

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 William George STOWER Traffic Accident Kogarah 1 October, 1937   It is not known if this death occurred on or off duty, however it appears likely that it was an off-duty death. The following brief paragraph appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 2 October, 1937.   CONSTABLE’S DEATH. Constable W. G. Stower,…