Deaths of British Palestine Police

Date name rank cause of death  
1922 May 4 Brock, Albert Constable natural causes acute peritonitis.  
1922 Aug 3 Read, Henry James Con. # 261    
1922 Sep 24 McNamara, Lawrence Con #021 malaria  
1922 Oct 30 Igoe, J Sgt #076 ?  
1922 Nov 6 Young R Cpl #111 suicide  
1923 Jan 14 Croke FB Captain suicide  
1923 Mar 25 Clemens WW Con #446 suicide  
1923 May 9 Kearney, John Con #027 TB. Buried UK  
1923 Jun 10 Loydall, John Albert Con # 466 shot in bandit ambush  
1923 Jun 10 Davies, Edward Con # 790 shot in bandit ambush  
1923 Jun 11 Purvis, Joseph Edward Con # 539 shot in bandit ambush  
1923 Jun 15 Swann WE Capt shot in an ambush  
1923 Aug 8 Fenlon, EVJ Con #631 Delirium Tremens, buried Ramleh  
1923 Sep 8 McKeon, Thomas Con Pneumonia, Ramleh  
1923 Mar 16 Mackay D F Con TB Army
1924 Feb 21 Swan, Josiah Edward Con Pneumonia, Ramleh  
1924 Apr 28 Webb, Harry Con ?  
1925 Jan 11 Keogh , Michael Con Natural causes. embolism  
1925 Dec 9 Burke, Thomas Francis Capt car crash  
1926 Jul 20 Ryan, Richard Sgt malaria  
1927 Jan 2 Forbes Sharp S Dep. Supt. TB  
1927 Dec 31 Verrall , WF Con #017 ?  
1929 Aug 26. Sykes, G R H not in Police was killed in a riot  
1929 Dec 2 Burton H Con suicide in England  
1931 Jul 7 Golden, P Con died London  
1933 Jul 5 Dyke, FW Con died Palestine, natural causes  
1934 Jun 24 Hughes AE Con died Palestine  
1934 Aug 20 Blackett AT Capt natural causes ?  
1941 Jan 8 Hollis JD Sgt natural causes  
1944 Feb 1 Cassidy FJ Inspector natural causes?  
1944 MAr 23 Brown CG Con murdered by Stern Gang  
1944 Aug 26 Martin JC Con natural causes  
         

 

 

 

 

 

1923 Jun 10. A local person has restored the graves of JA Loydall, E Davies and JE Purvis. they were killed by Bedouin bandits. The graves were lost for many years but were rediscovered by Israeli citizen, Michael Gottschalk who has spent his retirement researching lost British graves and chasing funding to refurbish them.

 

 

 

 

 

1929 Aug 26. George Robert Hughenden Sykes was killed in a riot

 

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