Michael Joseph Bannon
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Reserve Police Officer

Michael Joseph Bannon

Cambridge Police Department — Cambridge, MA
Illness
End of Watch October 1, 1918
Age 27
Tour of Duty 2 yrs 10 mo
Gender Male

Incident

Reserve Police Officer Bannon contracted influenza while performing his assigned job duties during the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918.

Reserve Police Officer Bannon served with the Cambridge Police Department for almost three years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Reserve Police Officer Bannon gave the Cambridge Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cambridge community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Reserve Police Officer Bannon.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
Platform Identity cambpd.middlesex.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 1, 1918
Tour of Duty 2 yrs 10 mo
Age 27
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Michael is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1918, 226 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 3rd heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Michael was 27. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Michael had served 2.8 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
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Age by years of service
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When

October holds 14.9% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Tuesdays: 13.3%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
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His people

Cambridge Police Department has 12 officers remembered here, Michael among them.

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Where

Reserve Police Officer Michael Joseph Bannon

Cambridge Police Department · End of Watch October 1, 1918

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 25-ET

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