Walter Claude Hollums

Birmingham Police Department — Birmingham, AL

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch August 15, 1923

Age 26

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

The Vigil Panel 45 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 48

Incident

Sergeant Claude Hollums was struck and killed by a car on 62nd Street and 1st Avenue. Sergeant Hollums was on duty but on his way home to tell his wife he had been promoted to Sergeant. He stepped off an East Lake street car when he was hit by a vehicle. The driver took him to hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries before he arrived. The driver was originally charged with manslaughter, but the charges were dropped when Sergeant Hollums widow and brother requested that all charges be dropped. Sergeant Hollums was a United States Navy WWI veteran who had served with the Birmingham Police Department for three years and previously served with the Southern Railway Police Department for one year. He was survived by his wife, two children, and two brothers. One brother also served with the Birmingham Police Department

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, two children, and two 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.
Sergeant Hollums gave the Birmingham Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Birmingham community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Birmingham Police Department

Type Other

Location Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Platform Identity birmpd.jefferson.al.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 15, 1923

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Age 26

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Walter Claude Hollums served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Walter Claude Hollums is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In AL, 182 of 643 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 28.3% of this state's fallen. That is 28.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Birmingham Police Department, 14 of 49 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 28.6% of this agency's fallen.

Birmingham Police Department

of 49 officers

28.6% Accident

AL — Statewide

182

of 643 officers

28.3% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Accident