David Stanley Bertram Wombwell
Temporary Detective Constable

David Stanley Bertram Wombwell

Metropolitan Police — London, ENG
Felonious
End of Watch August 12, 1966
Age 25
Gender Male

Incident

Temporary DC Wombwell was shot in the head and killed, by the front-seat passenger of a van parked in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison, as he and a colleague questioned the three occupants.

DS Christopher Tippet Head was shot and killed, as he ran back to his patrol car after seeing David shot dead, and PC Geoffrey Roger Fox was also shot and killed as as he attempted to drive away after seeing his colleagues killed.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Temporary Detective Constable Wombwell served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Temporary Detective Constable Wombwell.

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

Agency

Department Metropolitan Police
Type Police Department
Location London, ENG
Platform Identity mpd.wsm.eng.gb.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 12, 1966
Age 25
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Cause Detail Homicide - Shot

The Sacrifice · Felonious

David is one of 1,170 officers killed feloniously in United Kingdom, 30.9% 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 1966, 4 officers in United Kingdom were killed feloniously, the 42nd heaviest of 216 years on record. The heaviest was 1941, with 167.

Every year on record · United Kingdom
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Who

David was 25. Of the 1,048 killed feloniously in United Kingdom whose age is recorded, half were between 28 and 44; the middle age was 36.

Age at death
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When

August holds 7.1% of these deaths in United Kingdom; May holds the most, 12.6%. Fridays: 13.2%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 30.9% of all 3,791 deaths in United Kingdom, the 2nd most common cause.

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His people

Metropolitan Police has at least 120 officers remembered here, David among them.

Across the years

Temporary Detective Constable David Stanley Bertram Wombwell

Metropolitan Police · End of Watch August 12, 1966

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