Roll of Honor
Incident
Early in the morning of Tuesday 28th July 1885, PC Murdoch was on duty on the railway near the Tay Bridge Goods Station, in Dundee, when he was struck by a passing railway van and seriously injured.
He died in The Royal Infirmary two days later after having his right leg amputated as a consequence of the injury.
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141 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Police Constable Young served with the North British Railway Police.
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 Murdoch Young 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 SCT, 149 of 308 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 48.4% of this state's fallen. That is 17.4 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Murdoch Young's cause is highlighted.
How Murdoch Young Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Murdoch Young is highlighted in Jul.