Roll of Honor
Incident
PC Hayward left Newent police station about 10:00am on Saturday to cycle to Gorsley and district, calling at Pound Farm between 1:00pm and 2:00pm but, approximately two hours later, he was found lying unconscious in the road near Oxenhall, having sustained a fractured skull in a fall from his bicycle.
Walter was transported by police car to Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary but died there on Monday afternoon.
He had transferred from Gloucester to Newent just three weeks earlier and had been married only three months.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Hayward served with the Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Hayward.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Constable Walter Henry Hayward 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 Gloucestershire Constabulary, 8 of 18 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 44.4% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Walter Henry Hayward's cause is highlighted.
How Walter Henry Hayward Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
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