DETAILS OF DEATH

On the 25th June 1968, Senior Constable WEAVER was one of a group of Commonwealth Police Officers who responded to the Commonwealth Centre, Sydney, NSW where 150 students were protesting National Service ad the Vietnam War in the corridors and National Service Office on the third floor.  Here protestors had barricaded themselves using heavy furniture, preventing police entry.

At 17:10 hours, Senior Constable WEAVER and attending officers began removing protestors from the corridors, requiring officers to carry the students to a lift and down a footpath.  The protestors made removal efforts more difficult by linking arms, creating an arduous working environment for police.

To remove protestors from the office, a dozen Commonwealth Police, including Senior Constable WEAVER, were required to scale and drag the heavy barricades away before carrying the uncooperative protestors out and down to the ground floor.

It was while undertaking this task outside of the lift at 17:45 hrs that Senior Constable WEAVER collapsed and died.

DETAILS OF DEATH

On the evening of 1 May 1947 Constable Morley was patrolling the goods yard at the Kempsey Railway Station when he located a man acting suspiciously near a goods shed. Whilst he was attempting to detain the man to take him to the West Kempsey Police Station the man resisted violently striking the Constable on the right upper arm. The bruise caused by the blow eventually developed into a melanoma on the Constable’s shoulder. He was admitted to the Macleay District Hospital for treatment however eighteen months later he was admitted to the Prince Henry Hospital as his health had continued to deteriorate. He died on 25 June 1949. The Constable was born in 1917 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 3 July 1939. At the time of his death he was stationed at West Kempsey.

DETAILS OF DEATH

Nalty’s horse tripped and fell on him as he rode with a troop of 15 Mounted Constables to Adelaide from Dry Creek where the officers had practised shooting. Taken to the Adelaide Hospital in the police wagonette Nalty never regained consciousness and died later in the day.