Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Edmonds had finished his night duty and was walking home alongside the railway line, taking an alternative route due to severe flooding, when he was struck by a passing train and killed.
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- July 23, 2026
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149 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Sergeant Edmonds served with the Somerset Constabulary.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Edwin Edmonds 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 Somerset Constabulary, 3 of 18 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 16.7% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Edwin Edmonds's cause is highlighted.
How Edwin Edmonds Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Edwin Edmonds is highlighted in Nov.
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