Roll of Honor
Incident
PC Funnell died in the infirmary from shock and inflammation of the lungs, eleven days after suffering from smoke inhalation and sustaining burns to his face, neck and arms, while rescuing two barmaids from a fierce fire and going back to rescue the landlady.
While assisting the landlady to a rear exit, George collapsed and was later found unconscious on the floor of the bar parlour. The landlady managed to escape.
The fire at the Elephant and Castle public house on Wick Road, Hackney, took hold before 1:00am on Friday 22nd December 1899.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Constable Funnell served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Constable Funnell.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Constable George Stephen Funnell 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 Metropolitan Police, 306 of 729 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 42% of this agency's fallen.
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