History of the Metropolitan Police
Deaths by enemy action while off-duty
During wartime enemy air raids it was common for off duty police officers to assist with Civil Defence work, thereby placing themselves on duty. The names of those identified as having lost their lives in such circumstances are contained in the main Roll of Honour.
Below are listed the names of regular and auxiliary
police officers who lost their lives by enemy action
and who are known to have been off duty or have not
been identified as on duty. A number of them may have
lost their lives in the above circumstances but it is
impossible to say how many.
Names of all war dead, on both police and military service, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, are on a special Roll of Honour at Westminster Abbey.
| 1940 | WRC Henry John Samuel Edwards |
| WRC George Henry Nottage | |
| WRC George Alexander Hall | |
| PC Leonard Knowles | |
| PC Percy Edwin Looker | |
| WRC George Ian Sangster | |
| PC Ronald Ernest Aylett | |
| WRC John Edward Blackeby | |
| WRC Coronation George Elmer | |
| WRC Joseph Davis | |
| SC Frederick Garnish | |
| D/Sgt William Scott | |
| WRC Stanley Edward Bullworthy | |
| PC Edward Joseph Ryan | |
| WRC Frederick Guy Lawrence | |
| SC Leslie Guy Cresswell | |
| SC Arthur Overend | |
| WRC Harry Goodman | |
| SC Leonard Theophilus Sulway | |
| PC Douglas Weir | |
| WRC Kenneth Colin MacDonald | |
| R/Sgt Stanley Hankins | |
| Insp Theodore Cyril Hankin-Turvin | |
| WRC Walter Denby | |
| WRC Leonard Gordon Cowell | |
| PC Edward Lionel Castleton | |
| WRC Noel William Govett | |
| SC Herbert Lucas | |
| PC Samuel Bridges | |
| WRC Karl George Frederick Friman | |
| WRC Reginald Alfred Hall | |
| SC Leonard John Elwell | |
| SC Charles Leslie Bond | |
| WRC Henry John West | |
| R/Sgt James Holt | |
| PC John Doyle | |
| SC Clifford Charles Tilberry | |
| WRC William Lawrence Blake | |
| S/Sgt Richard Edward Jones | |
| WRC Philip Frank Nye | |
| SC Alfred Gordon Walker | |
| SC John Greenslade | |
| S/Insp William Cecil Bone | |
| 1941 | WRC Harry Stuart Stagg |
| PC Sydney James Coveney | |
| PC Andrew Darling Watters | |
| PC Leonard Adamson | |
| PC George Carlyle Martyn | |
| SC Sir Vyvyan Donald Cory (Bart) | |
| WRC Leonard Henry Warsap | |
| WRC William John Stephens | |
| PC William David Henry Bentley | |
| WRC Stanley Thomas Frederick Mordey | |
| PC George Henry Caleb Willis | |
| WRC Henry Croft | |
| PC Walter Edward Rogers | |
| WRC Cyril Edward Kaye | |
| WRC Henry Moulton | |
| APS Leonard Patrick Ives | |
| PC Benjamin Surflen Wathen | |
| WRC Thomas Frederick Russell | |
| SC Percy Bull | |
| WRC John Charles Collett | |
| PC Archibald Robert Wishart | |
| SC Arthur John North | |
| WRC George Albert Varney | |
| SC Richard Thomas Cobb | |
| Insp Alec Harley | |
| WRC Allan Jabez Place | |
| WRC William Golden Stewart | |
| WRC William Dennis Walton | |
| WRC James Betteridge | |
| PC Frank Charles Cooper | |
| WRC Ernest George Dove | |
| 1943 | PC Albert Edward Burns |
| WRC Nelson Hickmott | |
| S/Sgt John Hinder Russ | |
| 1944 | PC Waeter Edward Elsdon |
| WRC Albert William James Mason | |
| SC John Alfred Dennis | |
| PC Richard Radcliffe | |
| PC William Albert Steffens | |
| WRC Charles Jonathan Durrant | |
| WRC Dick Scrivener | |
| PC Eric Lindsay Cox | |
| PC James John Murrell | |
| PC Joseph Gordon Dunn | |
| SC Percival Walter Timbrell | |
| PC Frederick Ralph Haseman | |
| PC Thomas Hubbard | |
| SC Charles James Dove | |
| D/Sgt Albert Edward Smith | |
| WRC Edward Alexander Mason | |
| PC George Arthur Lord | |
| RPC William James Moir | |
| SC Leonard Morton | |
| PC Harold Robert Heath | |
| PC Alfred John Green | |
| WRC Leslie Burns Hayes | |
| PC Albert Henry Marsh Shephard | |
| SC Geoffrey Chalmers Thorne Brooks | |
| WRC Arthur Robert Harvey | |
| WRC Alfred Frank Cranefield | |
| WRC Albert Edward Bragg | |
| RPC George Phipps Routhorn | |
| 1945 | WRC Arthur Edward Howell |
| PC William Cyril George Edmonds | |
| Sgt John Brownhill |