Roll of Honor
Leonard Wade Lewis
Incident
Location: New Mexico Incident Date: Tuesday, November 1, 1938
Forest Ranger Leonard Wade Lewis was killed in a motor vehicle crash about seven miles north of Jimenez Springs, New Mexico.
At around 7:30 p.m., Ranger Lewis was traveling from his ranger station in the Santa Fe National Forest to Rio de Las Vacas. He was driving his department-issued pickup truck with a horse trailer. The pickup truck and trailer went off the road and rolled several times down an embankment. He was discovered the next morning, crushed underneath the vehicle.
Ranger Lewis was a United States Army World War I veteran and had served with the United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations for fifteen years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and nine children.
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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.
Forest Ranger Lewis gave the United States Department of Agriculture 15 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Leonard Wade Lewis served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.
Forest Ranger Leonard Wade Lewis 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 DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations, 3 of 9 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Leonard Wade Lewis's cause is highlighted.
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When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Leonard Wade Lewis is highlighted in Nov.
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