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World War One Roll of Honour

The World War 1 Roll of Honour remembers those officers that lost their lives serving in HM forces during the 1914-18 War or as a result of injuries received during the War.

Force	Officer	Police Rank	How Died	Date Died	Age
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Arthur Street	Constable	Received wounds to his hand by shrapnel and developed Tetanus, in Portsmouth.	09 September 1914	24
Birmingham City Police	Horace Weedon	Constable on B dvision	Killed in action	14 September 1914	22
Birmingham City Police	Walter Gordon Coates	Constable E256	Killed in action	16 September 1914	25
Birmingham City Police	Charles Lambert Harrison	Constable on A division	Killed in action	27 October 1914	36
Birmingham City Police	Henry Price	Constable on D division	Died of wounds	29 October 1914	27
Birmingham City Police	Edgar Stokes	Constable on E division	Killed in action	31 October 1914	28
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Richard William Kent	Constable	At the time of his death his battalion were in front line trenches on the eastern side of Ploegsteert Wood when attacked by German troops	07 November 1914	30
Birmingham City Police	George Wallace Adams	Constable on E & R divisions	Missing presumed deceased	11 November 1914	28
Coventry City Police	Oliver Jephcott Randle	Constable	Killed in action	18 November 1914	26
Birmingham City Police	Herbert Horace Goodley	Constable C59	Died of wounds	24 December 1914	26
Birmingham City Police	John Richard Maddocks	Constable on A division	Killed in action	13 January 1915	26
Birmingham City Police	Harold Edward Pitt	Constable E210	Died of wounds	02 February 1915	30
Coventry City Police	Abraham Lucas	Constable	Died of wounds	05 February 1915	28
Wolverhampton Borough Police	John Arthur Spencer	Constable	John died of wounds received in the 1st casualty Clearing Station at Chocques	20 February 1915	25
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Billingsley	Constable on A division	Killed in action	13 March 1915	25
Birmingham City Police	James Francis Bunn	Constable on C division	Killed in action	23 March 1915	27
Walsall Borough Police	John Lonnon	Constable	Killed in a battle at Popes Hill, Turkey, advancing on enemy positions	03 May 1915	28
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Peter Cunniffe	Constable	Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle sector	19 May 1915	28
Birmingham City Police	William Porter	Constable on B division	Killed in action	27 May 1915	29
Birmingham City Police	Lawrence Kenny	Constable D40	Died of enteric fever in Egypt	09 August 1915	33
Birmingham City Police	Peter Crawley	Constable on E division	Died of wounds	27 September 1915	27
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Sampson Jones	Constable	He was killed in action whilst serving with his battery about 12 miles south of Ypres	20 January 1916	41
Birmingham City Police	Gerald Aloysius Neilan	Constable on D division	Killed in action	24 April 1916	34
Birmingham City Police	George Henry Ruffles	Constable C224	Killed in action	16 July 1916	21
Birmingham City Police	Richard Tilley	Constable on E division	Killed in action during the Somme offensive	18 July 1916	24
Coventry City Police	Charles Edwin Gabbitas	Constable	He was mortally wounded by shell fire at a base camp and died following evacuation to the UK	26 August 1916	22
Birmingham City Police	Percy George Troughton	Constable C260	Killed in action	27 August 1916	24
Birmingham City Police	Alva Fred Watson	Constable A25	Killed in action	03 September 1916	22
Coventry City Police	Thomas Jennings	Constable	Killed in action	15 September 1916	30
Birmingham City Police	James William Green	Constable on B division	Killed in action	16 September 1916	32
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Henry (Harry) George Kidd	Constable	Wounded during the Somme offensive and succumbed to his wounds	16 September 1916	27
Birmingham City Police	Sam Chidler Ravenhall	Constable B164	Killed in action	26 September 1916	22
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Joseph Lane	Constable	Killed in operations during the Somme offensive serving in a �Pioneer Battalion�	23 October 1916	30
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Levi Jefferies	Detective Sergeant	Died during an operation to remove a cyst, caused by an accident in the trenches, with his heart being damaged by gassing in the trenches in France	23 October 1916	43
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Henry Parker	Constable PCB38	Killed in action	06 November 1916	26
Coventry City Police	Charles Davis Brown	Constable	Died of wounds	09 December 1916	29
Walsall Borough Police	William Henry Rickards	Constable	Killed in Mametz Wood, making his way up to the front lines	20 December 1916	35
Birmingham City Police	Arthur Benjamin Croft	Constable C284	Killed in action	25 January 1917	25
Birmingham City Police	Sidney Bayliss	Constable E67	Died of wounds	03 March 1917	26
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Henry Burt	Constable E209	Thomas died from an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis at Aldershot barracks.	27 March 1917	41
Birmingham City Police	Edward J Rossiter (George) MM	Constable on B division	Died of wounds	22 April 1917	29
Coventry City Police	Frank Webb	Constable	Died of wounds received in action	26 April 1917	29
Birmingham City Police	Frederick William Fryer	Constable on C division	Killed in action	03 May 1917	27
Birmingham City Police	David Ernest Penny	Constable on D division	Killed in action	27 May 1917	24
Birmingham City Police	George William Morris	Constable B205	Died of wounds	28 May 1917	27
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Samuel Bird Teasdale	Constable	Samuel was killed on the first day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge	31 July 1917	28
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Caldicott	Constable E167	Died of wounds	05 August 1917	27
Birmingham City Police	Harry Hurcombe MM	Constable C135	Died (killed by gas poisoning)	27 August 1917	24
Coventry City Police	Albert Edward Smith	Constable	Killed in action	26 October 1917	30
Wolverhampton Borough Police	Charles Albert Victor Moisey	Constable	Died when his battallion were attacked by German infantry	17 November 1917	29
Birmingham City Police	Frederick Oscar Pritchard	Constable D157	Killed in action	27 November 1917	22
Birmingham City Police	Jesse Hughes	Constable D329	Killed in Action	28 November 1917	29
Birmingham City Police	John Henry Clasper	Constable A39	Killed in action	01 December 1917	25
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Frederick Hudson	Constable on E division	Died from wounds	01 December 1917	23
Coventry City Police	John James	Constable	Killed in action	03 December 1917	23
Birmingham City Police	William Mulvihill	Constable D110	Died of wounds	03 December 1917	21
Birmingham City Police	Evan Davies	Constable	Evan was killed on the first day of the German spring offensive.	21 March 1918	29
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Gould	Constable on D division	Died of wounds	23 March 1918	28
Birmingham City Police	Joseph Cuffley MC	Constable B105	Died of wounds in German hands	31 March 1918	30
Birmingham City Police	William Reason	Constable B129	Killed in action	03 April 1918	25
Birmingham City Police	John Connor	Constable E260	Killed in action	13 April 1918	25
Coventry City Police	George Kings	Constable	Died of wounds	27 May 1918	29
Walsall Borough Police	Charles Smith	Constable	Killed in a battle at St. Floris when his battalion came under severe enemy fire and took part in hand-to-hand combat	22 August 1918	26
Walsall Borough Police	John Pearman	Constable	Killed in a battle at St. Floris when his battalion came under severe enemy fire and took part in hand-to-hand combat	22 August 1918	26
Birmingham City Police	William Henry Marshall	Constable E158	Killed in action	27 August 1918	26
Birmingham City Police	Robert Gilpin	Constable C31	Killed in action	30 August 1918	24
Birmingham City Police	Arthur Stratford Rogers	Constable on B division	Killed in action	27 September 1918	32
Birmingham City Police	John Edward Powell	Constable E263	Killed in action	08 October 1918	26
Birmingham City Police	Alfred (George) Phillpott	Constable	Died with his wife aboard the R.M.S. �Leinster� when she was torpedoed just outside Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Ireland	10 October 1918	29
Birmingham City Police	Alfred Merry	Constable on A division	Died of pneumonia	19 October 1918	29
Birmingham City Police	Ernest Knight	Constable C248	Killed in action	24 October 1918	28
Birmingham City Police	James Winstanley	Constable E249	Killed in action	24 October 1918	22
Birmingham City Police	George William Dix Dearlove	Constable D166	Died of wounds	25 October 1918	24
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Victor Smith	Constable A155	Died of bronco pneumonia in hospital in Boulogne	03 November 1918	28
Coventry City Police	Joseph Arthur Richards	Constable	Killed in action	04 November 1918	26
Walsall Borough Police	William Edward Williams	Constable	Most probably succumbing to illness at 37 years of age	05 November 1918	37
Birmingham City Police	Charles Henry Saunders MM	Constable E60	Died of influenza	07 November 1918	32
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Grinnall	Constable B233	Died possibly of influenza	09 November 1918	25
Walsall Borough Police	Thomas Fred Eccleston MM	Constable	Succumbed to pneumonia and influenza shortly after the armistice	17 November 1918	26
Birmingham City Police	James Riley	Constable	Discharged from army medically unfit January 1919 - diagnosed with emphysema including shortness of breath, giddiness and palpitations through strain of military duties	01 March 1919	34
Birmingham City Police	Thomas Benjamin James Cook	Constable on B division	Diagnosed with tubercle of the lungs and discharged medically unfit, dying 9 months later	01 June 1919	27
Birmingham City Police	George William Haynes	Constable	Discharged from army medically unfit in September 1918 - died from psthisis November 1919	09 November 1919	34
Walsall Borough Police	John Samuel Brinson	Constable	Gassed and wounded during service, suffered ill-health upon returning to the police including taking the last 14 weeks of his life off sick	09 September 1925	38
Walsall Borough Police	Arthur Titus Wilkes	Constable	At some stage in his service Arthur was wounded when he received shrapnel wound to the body. Shrapnell wounds from his service had accelerated mio-cardial degeneration. Shrapnell had worked its way through his lungs to his heart	02 April 1944	61

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For more information on the Birmingham officers who fought in WWI, click here to visit the website of the Military History Society of the West Midlands Police