Roll of Honor
Incident
PC Quemby left Ruislip police station about 1:45am and half-an-hour later, at 2:15am, a police sergeant was informed of an accident on Swakeleys Road, Ickenham, where a man was lying in the road.
Arriving at the scene the sergeant found the victim to be his colleague PC Quemby, who had died after sustaining a severe head injury.
Water had overflown from a blocked ditch on the corner of the south side of Harvil Road and Swakeleys Road, spread across the road for a length of nearly fifty feet and frozen, though the rest of the road remained dry.
Scratches and tyre marks in the ice indicated that Arthur’s motorcycle had skidded at the start of the ice patch and the officer had made a desperate effort to overcome the skid before being thrown from his motorcycle.
Arthur had been educated at Deacons School, where he’d won a reputation as a fine all-round sportsman. Before joining the police, in 1932, he was employed by an auctioneers and estate agent company.
PC Quemby was married and had two daughters, aged nine and six, the younger of whom celebrated her birthday the day before her father’s death.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Quemby served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Quemby.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Constable Arthur Edward Quemby is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.
In ENG, 1,349 of 2,827 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 47.7% of this state's fallen. That is 47.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Metropolitan Police, 306 of 729 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 42% of this agency's fallen.
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