Sergeant

Edwin Edmonds

Accident
End of Watch November 25, 1877
Age 49
Gender Male

Incident

Sergeant Edmonds had finished his night duty and was walking home alongside the railway line, taking an alternative route due to severe flooding, when he was struck by a passing train and killed.

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149 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Sergeant Edmonds served with the Somerset Constabulary.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

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Location ENG
Platform Identity sco.som.eng.gb.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 25, 1877
Age 49
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident
Cause Detail Train

The Sacrifice · Accident

Edwin is one of 1,673 officers lost to accidents in United Kingdom, 44.1% of the 3,791 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1877, 12 officers in United Kingdom were lost to accidents, the 41st heaviest of 194 years on record. The heaviest was 1940, with 40.

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Who

Edwin was 49. Of the 1,612 lost to accidents in United Kingdom whose age is recorded, half were between 27 and 43; the middle age was 35.

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When

November holds 9.9% of these deaths in United Kingdom, more than any other month. Sundays: 13.7%.

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How

Accident deaths account for 44.1% of all 3,791 deaths in United Kingdom, the most common cause.

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His people

Somerset Constabulary has 18 officers remembered here, Edwin among them.

Sergeant Edwin Edmonds

Somerset Constabulary · End of Watch November 25, 1877

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