History of the Metropolitan Police

The Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour was introduced after discussions in 1935 between Lord Trenchard and the Police Federation as a means of giving special recognition to the heroic death of PC James Thomson KPM who met his death in that year. It was backdated to 1920 when Police Orders first began to record such entries.

Over the years, the entries to the Roll of Honour have come to be restricted to cases where death has ensued as the result of an act of special gallantry or in connection with duties involving special risks. Each officer's entry is displayed on two pages of the book and produced using calligraphy and artwork. One page contains details of the officer and the other a citation detailing the circumstances of his death. Pages are turned to show the most recent death relative to the day of the year.

As a tribute to officers who died before the Roll of Honour started in 1920, and in recognition of other officers who have died in the course of their duties but whose names have not been formally recorded, a new Roll of Honour has been compiled and is contained in a Book of Rememberance which will be displayed within the entrance of Simpson Hall at the Peel Centre, Hendon.

The Roll of Honour is located in the public foyer at New Scotland Yard and is marked by a plaque inscribed as follows:

In a glass case below this plaque is a book inscribed Roll of Honour

The title page of the book is inscribed:

As a tribute to the many members of the Metropolitan Police Service who have given their lives in the course of po licing London, the names contained in the Roll of Honour are set out below. All officers appearing on this Roll of Honour are also commemorated within the much more inclusive Book of Remembrance (located at Hendon), which additionally lists a summary of the citations.

1999	PC Kulwant Singh Sidhu
	WPC Nina Alexandra MacKay
1995	PC Phillip John Walters
1994	Sgt Derek John Carnie Robertson QGM
1993	PC Patrick Dunne
1991	DC James Morrison QGM
	Sgt Alan Derek King
	PC Robert Chenery Gladwell
1990	PC Ashley Day
	PC Laurence Peter Brown
1989	PC Paul Maurice Breen
1987	DC John William Fordham
	PC Ronan Konrad Aidan McCloskey
1985	PC Keith Henry Blakelock QGM
	PC Stephen John Jones
1984	WPC Yvonne Joyce Fletcher
1983	Sgt Noel Joseph Lane
	Inspector Stephen John Dodd
	WPC Jane Philippa Arbuthnot
1981	Explosives Officer Kenneth Robert Howorth GM
1980	PC Francis Joseph O'Neill QGM
1975	Explosives Officer Captain Roger Philip Goad GC, BEM
	PC Stephen Andrew Tibble QPM
1973	PC Michael Anthony Whiting QPM
1971	PC Douglas Frederick Beckerson
1967	PC Desmond Morgan Acreman
1966	TDC David Stanley Bertram Wombwell
	Detective Sgt Christopher Tippett Head
	PC Geoffrey Roger Fox
1961	Insp Philip Pawsey QPM
	Sgt Frederick George Hutchins QPM
1960	PC Leslie Edwin Vincent Meehan
	PC Edward Roy Dorney
1959	Detective Sgt Raymond William Purdy
1958	PC Raymond Henry Summers
1957	Supt Cornelius Carson
1956	T/Sgt Reginald William Tipple
	T/Sgt Leonard Alfred Demmon QPM
1954	PC Percy James Claxton
1952	PC Sidney George Miles KPFSM
1948	PC Nathanael Edgar
1947	PC Leslie Edwin Thompson
	PC Gilbert Edward Perkins
1944	PC Walter Charles Tralau
1943	PC Harry Pickett
1940	WRC Jack William Avery
1938	PC George Thomas Shepherd
1937	PC Bernard Tutt
	PC Albert Arthur Taylor
	St/Sgt Frederick William Parncutt
1935	PC James Warrender Thomson KPM
	PC Henry Arthur Groves
1934	PC James Robert Carter
1933	PC Frederick William Percy
1931	PC William George Ware
	PC Harry Cautherley
	PC George William Allen
1930	PC Arthur Lawes
1929	PC John Arthur Self
	PC David Fleming Ford
1928	PC Raymond Cyril Mitchell
1927	PC Percy Edwin Cook
	Sgt Leonard Carter
1924	PC Arthur Owen Holdaway