Roll of Honor
Incident
Found dead on his beat having died from exposure while conducting enquiries near Brassendean, during a period of heavy snow and intense cold.
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144 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Police Constable Drummond served with the Berwickshire Constabulary.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable John Drummond 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 SCT, 109 of 308 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 35.4% of this state's fallen. That is 26.3 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. John Drummond's cause is highlighted.
How John Drummond Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. John Drummond is highlighted in Dec.