Roll of Honor
Incident
On discovery of a fire in a warehouse used as a cooperage in Plumbe Street in the Liverpool Docklands, the alarm was passed to the police fire station from where nine engines and water tanks immediately proceeded to the location.
The building, which was situated in a back yard filled with staves, reached the height of two stories. The fire had made considerable progress before it was discovered and on the arrival of the engines the flames were raging so furiously that the dwelling houses at the back and an adjoining warehouse were in imminent danger. As densely crowded as the buildings were and being in close proximity to the premises in which the fire originated, the primary effort of the brigade was to confine the fire to the original building and prevent it spreading.
A number of the firemen were amongst the ruins and standing immediately in front of the warehouse as a wall began to collapse, but before three of the crew could escape they were buried in the ruins. Attempts were immediately made to rescue them and they were all recovered from the rubble. The three men were taken to the Northern Hospital, where Police Fireman Pritchard died the following day.
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182 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Police Fireman Pritchard served with the Liverpool Police Fire Brigade.
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 Fireman Robert Pritchard 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 Liverpool Police Fire Brigade, 21 of 24 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 87.5% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Robert Pritchard's cause is highlighted.
How Robert Pritchard Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Robert Pritchard is highlighted in Feb.
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