Roll of Honor
Incident
Died in hospital eleven weeks after being seriously injured, on 17th October, when he jumped from the railway truck on which he was travelling and, as he landed, fell against a signal wire that threw his right leg in front of an oncoming truck that passed over the limb and crushed it.
He was immediately taken to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital where his leg was amputated and where he remained ill from the surgery until his death.
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Police Constable Ford served with the Devon County 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 Ford is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 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 16.7 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, 14 of 23 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 60.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. John Ford's cause is highlighted.
How John Ford Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. John Ford is highlighted in Jan.
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