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Incident
While returning to their lodgings from special duty at Epsom on Derby Day, 30th May 1906, PC Mellars and a colleague were attacked by a gang who knocked them down, kicked them and left them insensible in the road, with Frederick bleeding from a wound to the head.
PC Mellars undertook very little duty thereafter and died just over seven months later, on 6th January 1907.
The divisional police surgeon determined that Frederick died from heart failure and other medical issues but could not be sure they were directly attributable to the assault.
PC Mellars was based in Battersea and was attached to ‘V’ Division.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Mellars served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Mellars.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Constable Frederick Paul Mellars is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ENG, 719 of 2,827 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 25.4% of this state's fallen. That is 16.3 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At Metropolitan Police, 215 of 729 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 29.5% of this agency's fallen.
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