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In
Remembrance of those Police Officers who gave their life
LAWSON,
Bev
Deputy Commissioner
22 January, 1998.
Bev Lawson suffered from a stroke in her Tarrawanna
(Wollongong) home on 21 January 1998 as she prepared to
attend the funeral of a retired Police woman, Ruth Styles,
at a country centre.
Ruth Styles was an Inspector having previously been
stationed at Warilla NSW.
Bev Lawson was transported to Wollongong Hospital and died
at 10.20am on the 22 January, 1998 in Intensive Care.
Her funeral was held at Figtree on the 28 January, 1998.
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Robert Brotherson
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BROTHERSON,
Robert
Student Police Officer
1 February, 2002
Student Police Officer Robert Brotherson was a passenger
in a police car responding to a persons trapped motor
vehicle (MVA). The collision occurred upon the F6, Dapto,
Expressway on Thursday 24 January, 2002 at about 7.20pm,
when the vehicle he was travelling in slid across the road
and hit an on coming truck.
Student Police Officer Brotherson was critically injured
in the rear of the car while two other officers survived
with serious injuries. Robert survived for eight days, on
life support at Wollongong Intensive Care Unit until
12.00pm on Friday 1st February when life support was
turned off. He is survived by his wife Melissa and sons
Blake and Ewen.
Student Police Officer Brotherson was aged 29 years and
was buried with full police honours.
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SMITH, Ann Kylie
Constable.
3 February, 2003
Constable Kylie Smith, of Richmond Local Area Command in
Lismore, is the only Police Officer to die on duty in 2003. Kylie died in a car accident as she
travelled to work on February 3, 2003. The 28 year old
mother of one joined the NSW Police in 1994 and worked in
the Richmond Command.
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RATTY, Benjamin
Constable.
7th October, 1826
Benjamin Ratty - with his fellow Constables was trying
to catch bushrangers robbing travellers at night near the
Toll Bar on the Western Road Parramatta, (about where
O'Connell Street now joins the Highway).
He was shot by his fellow constables while he was playing
the part of an old drunk going home to lure out the
bushrangers who were attacking people.
A Community collection was made for the tombstone with
elaborate carving, the collection also paid for funeral
clothing for his widow, Ann Ratty (nee Arnold) who
Benjamin married at St John's in 1821. Mrs Ann Ratty
remarried in 1827, to Edward Smith, this being normal as
there were no other such social support system in those
days.
Benjamin Ratty is buried in St. John's Church Parramatta,
the grave is located about 15 metres north east of the
south west corner.
The Inscription reads:
To the Memory of Benjamin Ratty who departed this life 7th
Oct 1826. Aged 30 years. The deceased was a Constable in
the Town of Parramatta during seven years and this stone
was erected by its inhabitants as a mark of their esteem
for his services on various occasions in apprehending
Bushrangers & particularly for his intrepid behaviour
which will be remembered in the night of the 23rd of
September when he received the wound which caused his
death from a pistol shot & and which conduct led to the
immediate apprehension of a Part of the Banditti.
The Burial Register: Benjamin Ratty,
68. Parramatta. 9-10-1826. 28yrs. Shot by bushrangers.
Free. Constable. Sammuel Marsden.
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