The Honour Roll commemorates the 61 members of South Australia Police who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving their community. Unfortunately due to the nature of policing, this Hounour Roll will never be complete.

May they rest in peace - lest we forget.

 

SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE HONOUR ROLL
RANK	NAME	AGE	DATE OF DEATH	CAUSE
Mounted Constable	John Dunning Carter	22	7 May 1847	Drowned
Lance Corporal	William Wickam	24	7 May 1847	Drowned
Sergeant	Richard Ward	36	April-May 1850	Drowned
Mounted Constable	William Freebody	24	April-May 1850	Drowned
Mounted Constable	Robert Hill	26	April-May 1850	Drowned
Mounted Constable	John Forsayth	30	27 October 1852	Accidental Shooting
Trooper	James Higgins	34	31 May 1855	Horse Accident
Inspector	William Reid	44	7 June 1861	Accident
Corporal	Henry Kemp Brown Nixon	27	15 October 1861	Stabbed
Inspector	Richard Palmer Pettinger	32	4 February 1862	Murdered
Mounted Constable	John Barwick Porter	38	14 October 1880	Horse Accident
Mounted Constable	Harry Edmonds Pearce	23	18 May 1881	Murdered
Mounted Constable	John Charles Shirley	27	On or about 7 November 1883	Thirst
Foot Constable	Thomas Charlesworth	31	22 February 1884	Drowned
Mounted Constable	James Newsome Nalty	32	24 June 1884	Horse Accident
Mounted Constable	Richard William Spicer	34	29 June 1884	Accidental Shooting
Mounted Constable	Charles Ballantyne McCullagh	22	26 July 1885	Horse Accident
Foot Constable	James Murray	45	19 June 1886	Assault
Mounted Constable	Charles Patrick Johnston	24	4 December 1907	Sunstroke
Foot Constable	Albert Edward Ring	36	29 March 1908	Murdered
Foot Constable	William Hyde	34	4 January 1909	Murdered
Mounted Constable	Harry Chance	37	22 June 1911	Pneumonia
Foot Constable	Walter John Wissell	37	24 June 1919	Pneumonia
Foot Constable	Albert Leslie Bowley	34	21 January 1925	Bicycle Accident
Foot Constable	Thomas Alfred John Tregoweth	32	19 December 1926	Bushfire
Foot Constable	Cyril Fletcher Clayton	28	25 December 1928	Motor Vehicle Accident
Mounted Constable	George Thomas Smith	39	31 December 1928	Gassed
Foot Constable	John McLennan Holman	23	23 February 1929	Murdered
Motor Traffic Constable	Andrew MacBorough Copley	25	3 April 1930	Motor Vehicle Accident
Mounted Constable	Clifford Laurence Evans	27	16 November 1934	Assault
Foot Constable	James Webber	53	29 June 1946	Motor Vehicle Accident
Mounted Constable	Eric Walter Jones	27	24 April 1949	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Laurence Trevor Arney	22	10 July 1950	Motor Vehicle Accident
Special Constable	Mervyn George Casey	23	19 January 1951	Bushfire
Special Constable	Colin Roy Kroemer	33	19 January 1951	Bushfire
Sergeant	Cecil William Sparkes	46	19 January 1951	Bushfire
Motor Traffic Constable	Ronald John Grosvenor	30	20 July 1955	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	John Westley Raggatt	28	2 January 1956	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Theodore Arthur Nixon	27	20 February 1956	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Brian Humphrey Harvey	27	23 July 1956	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	William Laurence McInerney	31	11 October 1956	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Clive Richard Taylor	28	22 January 1957	Motor Vehicle Accident
Senior Constable	Harold Rae Pannell	38	12 March 1957	Murdered
First Class Constable	John Maxwell Philp	30	8 April 1960	Motor Vehicle Accident
Senior Constable	Ronald Cyril Huddy	36	19 April 1962	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Ronald Graham Grindlay	23	18 April 1963	Motor Vehicle Accident
First Class Constable	Llewelyn John Thomas	26	26 July 1969	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Brian Joseph Kain	24	15 August 1970	Motor Vehicle Accident
Senior Constable	John Adams	35	17 June 1976	Motor Vehicle Accident
Sergeant	Claude Allen Munson	55	31 December 1979	Motor Vehicle Accident
Motor Traffic Constable	Jerry George Preston	23	12 September 1980	Motor Vehicle Accident
First Class Constable	James Webb	35	21 October 1980	Motor Vehicle Accident
First Class Constable	Dennis Ronald Pugsley	25	21 December 1980	Motor Vehicle Accident
Constable	Kym Andrew Godfrey	22	28 December 1981	Motor Vehicle Accident
Constable	Warren John Matheson	24	29 March 1982	Motor Vehicle Accident
Constable	Mathew John Payne	22	29 March 1982	Motor Vehicle Accident
First Class Constable	Lyncon Robert Dix Williams	30	29 August 1985	Murdered
Sergeant	Martin Henry Harnath	49	18 September 1986	Accident
Senior Constable	David Thomas Hill Barr	31	26 July 1990	Murdered
Senior Constable	Gordon James Loft	35	7 April 1991	Hit Run Motor Vehicle Accident
Senior Constable	Bogdan Josef Sobczak	52	26 May 2002	Motor Vehicle Accident