#110 - A Memorial to The Fallen  (Hyde Park, London, W2)

#110 - A Memorial to The Fallen (Hyde Park, London, W2)

On Friday 5th July 1940 at 13:45pm, War Reservist Constable Jack William Avery left his post at the 'Old Police House' in Hyde Park having been alerted to a man "acting suspisiously" near the gun-emplacements. Confronting the man, PC Avery was stabbed to death. PC Avery is one of 1600 police officers to have died since policing began... but is there more to this story, why did he die and who was Frank Stephen Cobbett?

  • Date: Friday 5th July 1940
  • Location: Hyde Park, Baywater, London, W2
  • Victims: 1 (Jack William Avery)
  • Culprits: 1 (Frank Stephen Cobbett)


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#361 - The Vanishing of Wendy Upton (Lichfield, Steven Salisbury)

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#360 - Who 'Rolled' Tommy Walker? (Polesworth, Martin O'Halloran & Albert Langford)

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#359 - Buried Under Lies (Dhirajlal & Lalitaben Ladva, Rugby)

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