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This article includes only those serving police officers who were killed as a direct result of a crime or while attempting to respond, prevent, stop or solve a specific criminal act. The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many police officers killed by air raids during the Second World War. [1]
During the First World War the Military Police grew from 508 all ranks to over 25,000 all ranks by the end of the War. [3] During the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 the Military Police served the Army as a whole, rather than individual units. [3]
Military Dead Civilian Dead Total Dead Note World War II: 1939 1945 383,700 67,100 450,900 World War II deaths; includes deaths from the Crown Colonies: Arab revolt in Palestine: 1936 1939 262 262 Iraqi revolt against the British: 1920 1920 1,000 5,000 Tauber, E., The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq, pp. 312-314 Anglo-Irish War: 1919 1921 ...
The 9th Special Communications Unit, later redesignated as the 92nd Signal Regiment, and from 1967 as 2 (City of Dundee) Signal Squadron is a communications unit of the British Army, belonging to the Royal Corps of Signals.
Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) [2] is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, [3] a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, [3] Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
During the Great War, Serbia could be considered a country of women with a far greater number of women compared to men, Serbian census in 1910 showed there were 100 females per 107 males but by the time of the Austro-Hungarian census in 1916 there were 100 females per sixty-nine males, many of the men gone from the census just a short six years ...
Special Constables who served during World War I from 1914 to 1918 for three years, and performed at least 150 police duties were eligible to be awarded the medal. Recipients who received the medal under these conditions were entitled to a clasp inscribed The Great War 1914 - 18 to denote their World War I service.
Timbertown girls : Gretna female munitions workers in World War I (PhD thesis). University of Warwick. Cocroft, Wayne D. (2000). Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture. Swindon: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-718-0. Ministry of Munitions of War (1919). H.M. Factory, Gretna: Description of Plant and ...