Roll of Honor
Ellsworth M. Cummings, Jr.
Incident
Location: Indiana Incident Date: Saturday, September 29, 1945
Private First Class Ellsworth Cummings succumbed to injuries sustained two days earlier while pulling a bus over for a traffic violation inside Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana.
As he was attempting to overtake the bus, he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed, suffering a serious head injury. He was taken to Wakeman General Hospital at Camp Atterbury, where he succumbed to his injuries two days later.
Private First Class Cummings was a United States Army Purple Heart combat veteran and was attached to the 1560th Military Police Battalion out of Camp Atterbury.
Survivors
He was survived by his parents, two sisters, and fiancee.
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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.
Private First Class Cummings served with the United States Army Military Police Corps.
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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Incident Details
Military Service
Ellsworth M. Cummings, Jr. served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.
Private First Class Ellsworth M. Cummings, Jr. 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 MO, 237 of 813 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 1.8 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At United States Army Military Police Corps, 39 of 65 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.
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