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Lochlin Gavin
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Patrolman

Lochlin Gavin

Cambridge Police Department — Cambridge, MA
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic → Illness
United States flag Massachusetts flag
End of Watch December 30, 1920
Age 56
Tour of Duty 14 yrs
The Vigil Panel 92 · Column 2 · Line 18 ›
Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Also Remembered Department 11

Incident

Patrolman Lochlin Gavin died as a result of contracting Influenza while assigned to ambulance duty during the Influenza Pandemic.

Patrolman Gavin served with the Cambridge Police Department for 14 years.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Patrolman Lochlin Gavin died on December 30, 1920 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 56.

He is one of 201 officers honored here, and one of 2 at Cambridge Police Department.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people worldwide than the war that preceded it. Police officers worked it without vaccines, without antibiotics, and often without masks, enforcing quarantines, transporting the sick, and standing posts in cities where the dead outpaced the undertakers.

They caught it doing the job. There was no treatment to give them.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and six children.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Patrolman Gavin gave the Cambridge Police Department 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cambridge community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Gavin.

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

Agency

Department Cambridge Police Department
Type Police Department
Location Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
Platform Identity cambpd.middlesex.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 30, 1920
Tour of Duty 14 yrs
Age 56
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness
Cause Detail Influenza Pandemic

The Sacrifice · Illness

Lochlin is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

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

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Time

In 1920, 20 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 16th heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Lochlin was 56. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Lochlin had served 14 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

December holds 9.6% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Thursdays: 15.7%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Cambridge Police Department has 12 officers remembered here, Lochlin among them.

Across the years
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Where

Patrolman Lochlin Gavin

Cambridge Police Department · End of Watch December 30, 1920

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 48-WT

Also Remembered

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