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Patrolman

Robert Andrew Maher

Boston Police Department — Roxbury Crossing, MA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch April 10, 1946

Age 45

Tour of Duty 17 yrs 9 mo

The Vigil Panel 82 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 105

Incident

Patrolman Robert Maher was killed when he jumped from a third-story window during a fire at the Colonial apartments at 53 Belvidere Street.

He was off duty when he discovered the fire at approximately 4:30 am. He immediately rushed into the apartment complex and started to alert the sleeping tenants. He became trapped on the third floor due to the fire and leaped from a window into an alleyway. He suffered fatal injuries during the fall and was rushed to Boston City Hospital a police vehicle where he succumbed to his injuries several hours later.

Patrolman Maher was a U.S Navy veteran of WWI. He had served with the Boston Police Department for 18 years and was assigned to Station 4.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, three children, three sisters, and three brothers.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Maher gave the Boston Police Department 17 years.
Thank you for your service to the Roxbury Crossing community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Boston Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Roxbury Crossing, Suffolk County, MA

Platform Identity bpd.suffolk.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 10, 1946

Tour of Duty 17 yrs 9 mo

Age 45

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Robert Andrew Maher served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Robert Andrew Maher is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In MA, 158 of 469 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.7% of this state's fallen. That is 33.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Boston Police Department, 31 of 106 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this agency's fallen.

Boston Police Department

of 106 officers

29.2% Accident

MA — Statewide

158

of 469 officers

33.7% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident