Elizabeth Emblem

The Elizabeth Emblem is a national form of recognition conferred by the monarch and awarded to the next of kin of members of the United Kingdom emergency services who are killed on duty. ^{[1] [2]} It is named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. ^{[1] [2]} It is the civilian equivalent of the Elizabeth Cross. ^{[1] [2]}

History

On 9 March, 2024, the introduction of the Elizabeth Emblem was announced by the government. ^[3]

Design

At the top of the emblem is a Tudor Crown, which is surrounded by a rosemary wreath; a traditional symbol of remembrance. The emblem has inscriptions on both sides. On the front, the inscription reads: 'For A Life Given In Service', with the name of the person to whom the emblem is commemorated to inscribed on the back. ^[3]

The emblem includes a pin, allowing it to be worn by a next of kin of the person it is commemorating. A miniature of the grant will accompany it, with it being allowed to be worn by the recipient at 'that person's discretion'. ^[3]

Criteria

There are three criteria for a person to be eligible for an Elizabeth Emblem: ^[3]

Public service

• A person was employed in a role by, on behalf of, or formally funded by, an eligible body. The definition of an eligible body will be granted by the UK government, a devolved government (Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland), local government, a Crown Dependency or a British Overseas Territory;
• A person worked, either paid or voluntary at the behest of an eligible body, including any person with a formal contract or agreement to work for an eligible body, or ordered to provide a service;
• A person worked as part of emergency services personnel (either paid or voluntary), dealing directly or indirectly with emergencies. This will include front-line workers, as well as those working in control rooms, all working for emergency services of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a Crown Dependency or a British Overseas Territory. It also includes those who worked for mountain, cave and water rescue, weather and natural disaster response services and HM Coastguard; and,
• A person is not eligible to be commemorated by the granting of the Elizabeth Cross.

Circumstance of death

• A person's death occurred directly as a result of them taking action whilst in the course of their duty;
• A person was targeted on or off duty, as a result of their role or action they had taken;
• A person's death occurred during an operational call out, whether this was routine or for an emergency, whereby they died as a result of their response to the call;
• A person's death occurred due to them acting in assisting in an emergency situation that they were trained for, even if they were not formally on duty at the time;
• A person's death that occurred as a result of illness or injury attributable to their service; and,
• At the time of the person's death or during serving their organisation, they were not engaging in a criminal act or in such a way to place themselves or others at additional risk to their life.

Occurrence of death

• A person's death must have occurred on or after 1 January, 1948; or,
• A person's death must have taken place in Palestine between 27 September 1945 and 31 December 1947.

Nationality

• A person who has died may be of any nationality, however, if they were not a British citizen, the granting of the Emblem will be on agreement of the state in which they held citizenship

List of potential recipients

This is a list of potential reipients of the Elizabeth Emblem as collated from other articles on emergency service workers who have died in the line of duty.

Name	Rank/Role	Age	Force/Service	Date of death	Circumstances
Graham Saville	Sgt	46	Nottinghamshire Police	29 August 2023	Fatally injured after being struck by a train trying to reach a distressed man on the track. [lower-alpha 1]
Matt Ratana	Sgt	54	Metropolitan Police	25 September 2020	Shot while a man was being detained in a police custody centre [4] [5]
Nicholas Dumphreys	PC	47	Cumbria Police	26 January 2020	Car accident caused by known fault within the N57 engine in the BMW police vehicle he was driving whilst responding to emergency call. [6] [7]
Jonathan Marc Hicken	DC	47	Dorset Police	6 October 2019	Collapsed and died while travelling to duty. [8]
Andrew Harper	PC	28	Thames Valley Police	15 August 2019	Dragged by vehicle while investigating a burglary report [9]
Gareth Browning	PC	36	Thames Valley Police	1 April 2017	Struck by suspect vehicle while deploying a stinger in 2013 [10]
Keith Palmer	PC	48	Metropolitan Police	22 March 2017	Stabbed during Westminster terrorist attack
David Phillips	PC	34	Merseyside Police	5 October 2015	Run over whilst attempting to deploy a Stop Stick device in a pursuit [11] [12] [13]
Phillipa Reynolds	PC	27	Police Service Northern Ireland	9 February 2013	Killed when a stolen car hit her police car. [14]
Adele Yvette Cashman	DC	30	Metropolitan Police	5 November 2012	Collapsed while pursuing robbery suspects [15]
Fiona Bone	PC	32	Greater Manchester Police	18 September 2012	Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Nicola Hughes
Nicola Hughes	PC	23	Greater Manchester Police	18 September 2012	Killed in gun and grenade ambush alongside PC Fiona Bone
Ian Dibell GM	PC	41	Essex Police	9 July 2012	Shot while off duty and confronting an armed man [16]
Ronan Kerr	PC	25	Police Service Northern Ireland	2 April 2011	Killed by a Republican terrorist car bomb outside his home. [14]
Alan Bannon	WF	38	Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service	6 April 2010	Bannon and a colleague were responding to a fire in a tower block in Southampton. Firefighters had difficulties fighting the fire and the coroner's report stated that Bannon and Shears had died after being exposed to "sudden exposure to initially intense heat from 20.38 to 20.41 and thereafter to excessive heat while dealing with a fire in a flat on the 9th floor of the high-rise tower block Shirley Towers". [17] [18]
Gary Toms	PC	37	Metropolitan Police	11 April 2009	Thrown from police vehicle during pursuit [19]
Stephen Carroll	PC	48	Police Service Northern Ireland	9 March 2009	Shot by Republican terrorists whilst responding to 999 call. [14]
Brian Dean	WF	49	West Midlands Fire Service	3 December 2008	Dean and his crew (Bluewatch) from Bloxwich Fire Station were returning after dealing with an overturned car incident. Dean suffered a fatal heart attack. [20]
Kevin Declan Gorman	PC	24	Police Service Northern Ireland	23 November 2008	Car accident whilst responding to emergency call. [14]
Declan Greene	PC	39	Police Service Northern Ireland	23 November 2008	Car accident whilst responding to emergency call. [14]
James Robert Bawn Magee	PC	27	Police Service Northern Ireland	23 November 2008	Car accident while responding to emergency call. [14]
Kenneth Thomas Irvine	PC	30	Police Service Northern Ireland	23 November 2008	Car accident whilst responding to emergency call. [14]
Ian James Morton	DC	32	Dorset Police	26 October 2008	Killed in a road traffic collision whilst travelling to report for duty at Bournemouth, in the early morning, when his vehicle left the road and crashed into the wall of a bungalow at Highcliffe. [21]
John Averis	WF	27	Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service	2 November 2007	The 2007 Warwickshire warehouse fire; A fire broke out at a vegetable packing warehouse near to Atherstone-on-Stour in Warwickshire in November 2007. Averis and two colleagues, Ashley Stephens and Darren Yates-Bradley, were not recovered for four days afterwards due to the instability of the structure after it had collapsed. A fourth colleague, Ian Reid, was pulled from the burning building alive, but died later in hospital. [22]
Jonathan Charles Henry	PC	36	Bedfordshire Police	11 June 2007	Stabbed
Richard Gray	PC	43	West Mercia Constabulary	6 May 2007	Shot [23]
Joseph Geoffrey Carroll	PC	46	Northumbria Police	13 April 2006	Traffic collision while transporting a prisoner [19]
Sharon Beshenivsky	PC	38	West Yorkshire Police	18 November 2005	Shot while responding to an armed robbery [19]
Billy Faust	WF	36	London Fire Brigade	20 July 2004	Faust and his colleague, Adam Meere, were in the basement of a burning building in Bethnal Green, London. An inquest into their deaths later stated that fire officers had not realised the strength of the flames and that a hose had been burnt through. It was also suggested that when colleagues opened doors to vent the building, a flashover occurred and burnt the men to death. [24] [25]
Michael Swindells	DC	44	West Midlands Police	21 May 2004	Stabbed [19]
Ian Nigel Broadhurst	PC	34	West Yorkshire Police	26 December 2003	Shot during the Leeds police shootings [19]
Andrew James	PC	38	South Wales Police	2 August 2003	Accidentally run over while pursuing suspect [26] [lower-alpha 2]
Andrew Edmund Clinton	WF	53	West Midlands Fire Service	17 March 2003	Clinton was working at the top of a hydraulic platform at Bournbrook Fire Station when he fell sustaining fatal injuries. [27]
Stephen Robin Oake	DC	40	Greater Manchester Police	14 January 2003	Stabbed [19]
Gerald Walker	PC	42	Nottinghamshire Police	9 January 2003	Run over
Andrew Carl Munn	PC	37	Leicestershire Constabulary	15 August 2002	Rammed by vehicle being pursued. Same incident as PC Bryan Moore. [28]
Bryan Moore	PC	39	Leicestershire Constabulary	15 August 2002	Rammed by vehicle being pursued. Same incident as PC Andrew Munn. [28]
Alison Armitage	PC	29	Greater Manchester Police	5 March 2001	Run over by suspect [19]
Jon Odell	PC	30	Kent Police	19 December 2000	While conducting speed checks was intentionally run over by disqualified driver [29] [30]
Raja Bashrat Ahmed	PC	35	Greater Manchester Police	31 August 1999	Motorcycle rammed into oncoming traffic by suspect [31]
Clive Barratt	DC	35	Suffolk Constabulary	28 July 1999	Motorcycle accident while on surveillance duty [32]
Ian Leslie Toomer	Insp	50	Dorset Police	20 April 1999	Killed in a road collision when his police car crashed in wet weather.
Nina Alexandra MacKay	WPC	25	Metropolitan Police	24 October 1997	Stabbed [33]
Stephen Wilson	PC	37	Dorset Police	16 May 1996	Fatally injured in a motorcycle collision while reporting for night duty.
Phillip John Walters	PC	28	Metropolitan Police	18 April 1995	Shot
Lewis George Fulton	PC	28	Strathclyde Police	17 June 1994	Stabbed [34] [lower-alpha 3]
Derek Robertson	Sgt	39	Metropolitan Police	9 February 1994	Stabbed during post office robbery. [35] [36]
Richard Ellerker	PC	42	North Yorkshire Police	26 December 1993	Collapsed and died shortly after arresting a violent, drunk suspect [37]
Hugh John Moore	Cmdr	64	City of London Police	4 December 1993	Collapsed after an arrest
Patrick Dunne	PC	44	Metropolitan Police	20 October 1993	Fatally shot while attending domestic dispute [38]
John Davies	RF	34	Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service	6 September 1993	During a fire at the Sun Valley poultry processing plant in Hereford, a ceiling collapsed and trapped Davies and his colleague Dave Morris. Both died at the scene. [39] [40]
William 'Bill' Forth	PS	34	Northumbria Police	21 March 1993	Beaten and stabbed to death after answering a 999 call. [41]
Glenn Thomas Goodman	SPC	37	North Yorkshire Police	7 June 1992	Shot by IRA member Paul Magee during routine traffic stop [42]
Sean Oxford	SPC	21	Dorset Police	7 May 1992	Collapsed and died during warm up exercises in preparation for self defence training.
Alan King	PS	41	Metropolitan Police	29 November 1991	Stabbed while questioning a male suspected of handling stolen goods [43]
Duncan Clift	PC	27	Kent Police	22 March 1991	Killed off duty while trying to arrest car thief. [44]
Robert Chenery Gladwell	PC	37	Metropolitan Police	6 January 1991	Died three weeks after being assaulted while carrying out an arrest [45]
Laurence Peter Brown	PC	27	Metropolitan Police	28 August 1990	Shot [46]
Raymond Anthony Codling	Insp	49	Greater Manchester Police	14 September 1989	Shot [47]
Gavin Carlton	PC	29	West Midlands Police	19 December 1988	Shot while attempting to arrest armed bank robbers [48]
Francis John Mason	PC	27	Hertfordshire Constabulary	14 April 1988	Shot while off-duty, attempting to prevent an armed robbery. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. [49] [50]
Ernest David 'Dave' Gregory	RF	46	Dorset Fire and Rescue Service	16 October 1987	Gregory and his colleague, Graham White were killed instantly when a tree fell on the front of the cab of their fire appliance, whilst driving between incidents on the night of the 1987 Great Storm [51] [52]
Roger Brereton	PC	41	Thames Valley Police	19 August 1987	Shot in the Hungerford massacre [53]
Ronan McCloskey	PC	25	Metropolitan Police	9 May 1987	Struck by motor vehicle by suspected drink driver trying to escape. [54]
Ian Wain Woodward	PC	33	Lancashire Police	25 February 1987	Shot after challenging poacher off-duty. [55]
John Taylor	PC	26	Staffordshire Police	23 November 1986	Pushed from roof while arresting burglars. [56]
Keith Henry Blakelock	PC	40	Metropolitan Police	6 October 1985	Stabbed in the Broadwater Farm riot [57]
John William Fordham	DC	45	Metropolitan Police	26 January 1985	Stabbed during the Brink's-Mat robbery.
John Speed	PS	39	West Yorkshire Police	31 October 1984	Shot while going to aid of a colleague who had been fired on near Leeds Parish Church [58]
Brian John Bishop	A/Sgt	37	Essex Police	27 August 1984	Shot
Yvonne Joyce Fletcher	WPC	25	Metropolitan Police	17 April 1984	Shot [59]
Jane Philippa Arbuthnot	WPC	22	Metropolitan Police	17 December 1983	Killed in the Harrods bombing [60]
William Ross Hunt	DS	56	Strathclyde Police	5 June 1983	Fatally stabbed and beaten when members of a suspect’s family attacked him and other officers with knives and other weapons as he attempted to arrest the man for serious assault.
Kenneth Frederick Innell	Insp	44	Dorset Police	13 December 1982	Collapsed and died during an incident on duty at Poole Quay.
Mandy Dawn Rayner	WPC	18	Hertfordshire Constabulary	13 October 1982	Vehicle struck during police pursuit. She was the first British woman police officer to be killed in service. [61]
John Donley	WF	26	County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service	5 September 1982	Donley and his colleague, Tony Hall, were killed when their fire engine overturned en route to a chimney fire in South Hetton. [62]
Robin John Gleeson	WF	29	West Midlands Fire Service	19 August 1982	Gleeson sustained fatal head injuries whilst fighting a fire in a paper factory in Walsall. [63]
Jim Porter	DC	31	Durham Constabulary	4 March 1982	Shot in pursuit of armed robbers. [64]
David Thomas Winter	Sgt	31	North Yorkshire Police	28 June 1982	Shot by Barry Prudom [65]
David Ian Haigh	PC	25	North Yorkshire Police	17 June 1982	Shot by Barry Prudom [65]
Kenneth Robert Howorth	CEO	49	Metropolitan Police	26 October 1981	Killed by an IRA bomb
Raymond Davenport	PC	42	Merseyside Police	4 July 1981	Killed whilst attempting to stop a stolen vehicle [66]
Glenn Russell Corder	PC	18	Durham Constabulary	6 February 1980	Vehicle crashed during police pursuit [67]
Desmond Derrick Kellam	PC	31	Wiltshire Constabulary	3 October 1979	Fatally injured during an arrest [68]
Christopher McDonald	PC	19	Nottinghamshire Police	17 May 1978	Beaten [69]
David Barnes	-	-	Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service	15 September 1977	Barnes was engaged in fighting a fire in Elgar Road, Reading, when the building collapsed onto him. [70]
Neil Goldsmith	-	-	Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service	15 September 1977	Goldsmith was engaged in fighting a fire in Elgar Road, Reading when the building collapsed onto his colleague (David Barnes). When Goldmsmith went in to try and rescue Barnes, the building suffered a total collapse and killed both men. [71]
Ian Robert Collier	WF	22	West Midlands Fire Service	29 May 1977	Collier was fighting a fire on a railway embankment in Solihull. He was struck by a railway locomotive and suffered fatal injuries. He had only been a firefighter for five months. [72]
Hylton Brearley	-	37	West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service	9 December 1976	Brearley was killed in Netherton when the appliance that he was in overturned on ice whilst en route to a callout. [73]
George William Barrett	WF	43	West Midlands Fire Service	2 December 1976	Barrett was killed in a vehicle accident whilst en route to a fire inspection. [74]
Brian Dawson	Sgt	42	Leicestershire Police	1 September 1975	Shot during a siege in West Knighton, near Leicester. Two others were also shot dead, with the gunman later being imprisoned on charges of manslaughter. [75] [76] [77]
Roger Philip Goad	CEO	40	Metropolitan Police	25 August 1975	Killed by an IRA bomb
Stephen Andrew Tibble	PC	21	Metropolitan Police	26 February 1975	Shot while assisting colleague when off-duty [78] [lower-alpha 4]
Robert Bell	WF	29	Kent Fire and Rescue Service	8 November 1974	Bell and another firefighter, David Holley, were investigating smoke in a building full of latex mattresses on HMS Pembroke in Chatham Dockyard. It was believed that a flashover occurred and killed the men outright, but it was not known exactly what caused the flashover that resulted in their deaths. Investigations by the Fire Research Station later determined that a smouldering cigarette could cause latex to decompose at low temperatures and allow flammable fumes to accumulate. It was assumed that whilst searching for the seat of the fire, the two firemen turned over one of the smouldering mattresses which allowed an explosive mix of air and flammable vapour to mix and thereby cause an explosion. [79] [80]
Dennis Arthur Smith	PC	44	Devon and Cornwall Police	21 December 1973	Shot after high speed pursuit [81]
Karpal Kaur Sandhu	PC	30	Metropolitan Police	4 November 1973	Fatally injured during an arrest [82]
Derek George William Andrews	WF	32	City of Birmingham Fire Brigade	25 August 1972	Andrews was fighting a factory fire in Tenby street when the building collapsed onto him. He received fatal injuries. [83]
Alastair Crofts	WF	31	Glasgow Fire Service	25 August 1972	The Kilbirnie Street fire; Bermingham and five others had gone into a burning building to recover a missing fireman at a cash and carry warehouse on Kilbirnie Street in Glasgow. Fireman Rook was listed as missing and as the six-man team were trying to recover him, an extreme flashover event that caused the temperature to be instantly raised to over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) occurred and all seven died. [84] [85]
Allan Finlay	WF	20	Glasgow Fire Service	25 August 1972	The Kilbirnie Street fire; Bermingham and five others had gone into a burning building to recover a missing fireman at a cash and carry warehouse on Kilbirnie Street in Glasgow. Fireman Rook was listed as missing and as the six-man team were trying to recover him, an extreme flashover event that caused the temperature to be instantly raised to over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) occurred and all seven died. [84] [85]
Iain Bermingham	WF	29	Glasgow Fire Service	25 August 1972	The Kilbirnie Street fire; Bermingham and five others had gone into a burning building to recover a missing fireman at a cash and carry warehouse on Kilbirnie Street in Glasgow. Fireman Rook was listed as missing and as the six-man team were trying to recover him, an extreme flashover event that caused the temperature to be instantly raised to over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F) occurred and all seven died. [84] [85]
Peter Guthrie	PC	21	West Midlands Police	22 July 1972	Shot [86]
Gerry Irving Richardson	Supt	38	Lancashire Constabulary	23 August 1971	Shot
Douglas Frederick Beckerson	PC	22	Metropolitan Police	10 April 1971	Fell through a roof while pursuing suspect [87]
Barry Taylor	Insp	30	West Yorkshire Police	15 February 1970	Shot while responding to a burglary [88]
Edward Alexander Barnett	PC	24	City of Glasgow Police	4 January 1970	Shot during the Linwood bank robbery.
Angus MacLeod MacKenzie	A/DC	31	City of Glasgow Police	30 December 1969	Shot during the Linwood bank robbery
John Appleby	-	-	London Fire Brigade	13 July 1969	The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting torch to remove an inspection plate at the base of the tank. A spark from the torch ignited the air/gas mix and the tank exploded killing the five firemen and the civilian torch-cutter. [89]
Michael Gamble	-	-	London Fire Brigade	13 July 1969	The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting torch to remove an inspection plate at the base of the tank. A spark from the torch ignited the air/gas mix and the tank exploded killing the five firemen and the civilian torch-cutter. [89]
Paul Carvosso	-	-	London Fire Brigade	13 July 1969	The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting torch to remove an inspection plate at the base of the tank. A spark from the torch ignited the air/gas mix and the tank exploded killing the five firemen and the civilian torch-cutter. [89]
Terence Breen	-	-	London Fire Brigade	13 July 1969	The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting torch to remove an inspection plate at the base of the tank. A spark from the torch ignited the air/gas mix and the tank exploded killing the five firemen and the civilian torch-cutter. [89]
Edmund Burt	-	23 [lower-alpha 5]	Western Fire Brigade	7 October 1968	Firefighters from the Western Fire Brigade (later Strathclyde), had brought a fire at a papermill in Linwood under control when a wall collapsed and buried four people. Burt died from injuries sustained by falling masonry. [90] [91]
Desmond Morgan Acreman	PC	33	Metropolitan Police	12 February 1967	Accidentally run over while pursuing suspected thieves in Woolwich. [92] [lower-alpha 6]
Geoffrey Fox	PC	41	Metropolitan Police	12 August 1966	Shot in the Shepherd's Bush Murders, alongside Christopher Head and David Wombwell [19]
Christopher Head	DS	30	Metropolitan Police	12 August 1966	Shot in the Shepherd's Bush Murders alongside Geoffrey Fox and David Wombwell [19]
David Wombwell	DC	25	Metropolitan Police	12 August 1966	Shot during the Shepherd's Bush Murders alongside Geoffrey Fox and Christopher Head [19]
Gordon Robert Dix	WF	52	Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service	16 February 1966	Dix and two colleagues died when they were overcome by smoke at a bunker on RAF Neatishead in Norfolk. The fire had been started deliberately and caused over one and half million pounds worth of damage. Because of the potential for confusion in smoke or complicated building layouts, a knotted guide line was introduced nationally after this fire to assist firefighters to identify the correct way to the exit. [93]
Herbert James Durrant	WF	52	Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service	16 February 1966	Dix and two colleagues died when they were overcome by smoke at a bunker on RAF Neatishead in Norfolk. The fire had been started deliberately and caused over one and half million pounds worth of damage. Because of the potential for confusion in smoke or complicated building layouts, a knotted guide line was introduced nationally after this fire to assist firefighters to identify the correct way to the exit. [93]
Reginald Deveson	RF	56	Kent Fire Brigade	11 May 1965	Deveson was helping to put out a fire aboard a ship carrying jute and oil-cake stranded on Deal beach. He had already been at the scene for sometime when he said he was feeling unwell, by the time that a doctor had arrived on the Walmer lifeboat, Deveson had died. [94]
J Calderwood	-	58	Lanarkshire Fire Brigade	7 January 1963	Calderwood and a colleague, McIntosh, were fighting a fire in a paint store at Colville's Steel Works in Bellshill, Mossend. An explosion ripped through the building killing McIntosh instantly; Calderwood died in hospital eight days later. [95]
John J Buist	DO	52	Angus Fire Brigade	13 April 1962	Buist, a Divisional Officer, was killed when a bale of jute fell on him whilst tackling a fire in Dundee. [96]
Ernest Southern	PC	35	Lancashire Constabulary	27 January 1962	Collapsed attending a violent street affray [97] [lower-alpha 7]
Alexander Grassie	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
Alfred Dickinson	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
Archibald Darroch	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
Daniel Davidson	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
Christopher Boyle	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
James Allan	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
James Calder	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
William Clark	WF	47	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
William Crocket	WF	-	Glasgow Fire Service	28 March 1960	The Cheapside Street whisky bond fire. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L; 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. As the alcohol was superheated, a massive explosion ruptured the walls outwards and covered the firefighters on two different streets with falling masonry; one turntable ladder and its crew were completely covered in rubble. 19 firefighters died in all, in what was described as Britain's worst firefighter disaster since the Second World War. [98]
Ronald Alan Addison	PC	24	Metropolitan Police	24 January 1960	Collapsed and died of heart failure while pursuing suspects [99]
Edward Roy Dorney	PC	24	Metropolitan Police	1 January 1960	Killed along with Police Dog Gus when hit by a train whilst pursuing burglary suspects. [100]
Jack Fourt-Wells	WF	46	London Fire Brigade	23 January 1958	Smithfield Poultry Market in the Smithfield district of London, burnt down in January 1958. Fourt-Wells and another firefighter, Richard Stocking, became lost in the basement labyrinth beneath the market and were not missed nor reported missing until it was too late. [note 1] [101] [102]
Albert Farrow	RF	44	Kent Fire Brigade	29 November 1957	A fire had engulfed the tailor's shop at Oakwood Hospital in Maidstone. The fire was successfully extinguished, but without warning, an adjacent 115-foot (35 m) tower collapsed on those performing dampening down operations. Many people were trapped under the rubble and three firemen and three hospital staff were killed. [103] [104]
Cecil Robert Budden	PC	27	Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police)	19 May 1957	Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on motorcycle patrol.
Sidney George Miles	PC	42	Metropolitan Police	2 November 1952	Shot whilst responding to a burglary
Robert Burrows	WF	25	Salford Fire Brigade	1 March 1951	Burrows and his crew were on their way to a call in Weaste on the west side of Salford. The fire appliance they were on was a type where the firefighters rode along the outside of the vehicle and held on to a handrail. Whilst en route, the handrail snapped, Burrows and a colleague fell into the road where Burrows sustained head injuries and died. [105] Investigations later determined that water penetration had rotted the wood where the screws affixed it to the appliance. [106]

Acronym	Title	Service	Notes
ACC	Assistant Chief Constable	Police
A/	Acting/(rank)	Police	The prefix "acting" (e.g. acting inspector, abbreviated A/Insp) denotes an officer who is performing the role of a higher rank than the one actually held (sometimes informally termed "acting up")
CC	Chief Constable	Police	Head of a police service (however, some forces, such as the Metropolitan Police Service have a slightly different structure of Chief officer's, with the equivalent of Chief Constable being Commissioner)
CEO		Police
Cmdr	Commander	Police
Ch.Insp	Chief Inspector	Police
Ch.Supt	Chief Superintendent	Police
DC	Detective Constable	Police
DCC	Deputy Chief Constable	Police
DO	Divisional Officer	Fire & Rescue Service
Insp	Inspector	Police
OFS	Other Firefighter Staff	Fire & Rescue Service
PC	Police Constable	Police
PS	Police Sergeant	Police
SPC	Special (Police) Constable	Police	Part of the Special Constabulary, officers with the same powers as regular colleagues, who perform duties on a voluntary basis
Supt	Superintendent	Police
T/	Temporary/(rank)	Police	The prefix "temporary" before a rank (e.g. temporary detective sergeant, abbreviated T/DS) denotes an officer who has been temporarily promoted to a rank (and so who does actually hold that rank, albeit on a temporary basis)
TF	Trainee Firefighter	Fire & Rescue Service
WF	Wholetime Firefighter	Fire & Rescue Service
WPC	Woman Police Constable	Police	The use of the word 'Woman' was abolished by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975
RF	Retained Firefighter	Fire & Rescue Service

Notes

1. Saville was struck on 24 August but died in hospital five days later
2. James was chasing a teenager in Cardiff following a break-in at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, he was struck by a passing car and died later at the University Hospital of Wales.
3. Fulton was stabbed after arriving at a disturbance involving an 18-year old youth in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Fulton died in Glasgow Victoria Infirmary undergoing surgery.
4. Tibble stopped his motorcycle on Charleville Road, London, and attempted to stop a man who was running away from two plain clothes policemen, the man fired at Tibble and ran on. Tibble was wounded twice in the chest and died later at New Charing Cross Hospital
5. Age is disputed; either 22 or 23
6. Acreman was injured in the accident on 11 February but died the following day
7. Southern collapsed outside a hotel in Kirby near Liverpool while dealing with a disturbance, he later died in hospital from cerebral haemorrhage

1. The two officers were wearing Proto Breathing Apparatus (BA) sets. Their deaths prompted the LFB to initiate a review into BA sets and they style and use was updated. Additionally, a BA tracking board was introduced which meant that someone set back from the fire, knew the location of firefighters wearing BA sets when entering any burning building.

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