The list contains recipients of the Elizabeth Emblem, as of July 2025.
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+NameAgeRank (or role)OrganisationDate of deathRoll of Honour citation or circumstances of deathDate published of recipients approved by HM King Charles IIIBernard Goodwin Bourdillon35Assistant Secretary to the Palestine GovernmentHMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office22 July 1946Members of the Irgun disguised themselves as Arabs and set off a bomb in the King David Hotel, Jerusalem. The hotel had been the base for the British Secretariat, the military command and a branch of the police. 91 people were killed, most of them staff of the secretariat and the hotel, including Bourdillion.4 July 2025Jack Foster20Police ConstableHMG British Palestine Police Force29 December 1947Shot in attack4 July 2025Robert Gilchrist Broadhead Martin47Police ConstableMetropolitan Police23 March 1950Fatally injured in an accident on a wet road while on motorcycle traffic patrol.4 July 2025Robert Watson MMLieutenant Malayan Police29 August 1951Unable to locate information (July 2025)4 July 2025Isaac Taylor30Police ConstableLancashire County Police22 May 1956Fatally injured when his patrol car crashed during a vehicle pursuit.4 July 2025Sidney Leslie Dodd27Police ConstableEssex Police24 February 1957Killed when he was struck and knocked down by a car while on bicycle patrol near Tilbury.4 July 2025Peter Charles John Griffin35Police ConstableNewport Borough Police15 March 1960Alongside PC Hosea Pope (who was also killed), Griffin was fatally injured after being knocked down directing lorries to a checkpoint.4 July 2025Kenneth Gledhill34FirefighterWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service25 March 1963Injured at an incident by a falling coping stone.4 July 2025Dennis Edward Cowell41Police ConstableMetropolitan Police22 November 1965Cowell was on duty as a River Policeman. He died in the river Thames after a police launch on which he was a crew member, capsized after a collision between three boats. PC Cowell was in the cabin at the time of the incident and drowned.4 July 2025Henry Bertram 'Bert' KennaUnable to locate information (July 2025)Station OfficerIsle of Man Fire and Rescue Service22 November 1965Kenna collapsed and died after attending a commercial building fire in Douglas, Isle of Man, after entering the smoking building alone to search for people inside, before re-emerging.4 July 2025Christopher Tippett-Head30Detective ConstableMetropolitan Police12 August 1966Tippet-Head and his colleague David Stanley Bertram Wombwell, alongside another colleague, PC Geoffrey Fox (not yet a recipient of the Elizabeth Emblem), questioned the occupants of a suspected getaway vehicle for a prison escape, before they were all shot and killed by Harry Roberts, John Duddy and John Witney.4 July 2025David Stanley Bertram Wombwell25Detective Sergeant (Temporary)Metropolitan Police12 August 1966Wombwell and his colleague Christopher Tippett-Head, alongside another colleague, PC Geoffrey Fox (not yet a recipient of the Elizabeth Emblem), questioned the occupants of a suspected getaway vehicle for a prison escape, before they were all shot and killed by Harry Roberts, John Duddy and John Witney.4 July 2025Brian Armstrong31Police ConstableGateshead Borough Police12 September 1966Fatally stabbed by a youth he was questioning about theft from a car.4 July 2025Clive Blackburn30Police ConstableStaffordshire County Police24 February 1967Killed when he was struck by a car while assisting at the scene of a breakdown.4 July 2025Arthur Bertram Chadwick41Sub OfficerDerbyshire Fire Service8 March 1967Killed in Hopton, Wirksworth after being injured during a road traffic accident in an appliance he was in.4 July 2025Joseph Stewart Drake36Police ConstableStirling and Clackmannan Constabulary11 August 1967Drake was killed when a stolen lorry being pursued by officers intentionally struck his police vehicle as he tried to intercept it at Dennyloanhead near Falkirk.4 July 2025John 'Jack' Liptrot47Leading FirefighterLancashire Fire Brigade16 April 1968Liptrot was part of a fire crew called to attempt to rescue three children who had entered a disused mineshaft at the former Brackley Colliery. He was overcome by blackdamp (a combination of gases with insufficient oxygen to support human life) and could not be revived.4 July 2025John Robson Taylor53Police ConstableHull City Police29 April 1968Fatally injured in a police car crash while escorting a prisoner.4 July 2025Ronald Brewer40Leading FirefighterDoncaster Fire Brigade25 June 1969Injured during an accident in an appliance, en route to a fire call.4 July 2025Douglas Frederick Beckerson22Police ConstableMetropolitan Police10 April 1971Killed in a fall through a glass roof while trying to arrest a violent suspect.4 July 2025Ernest McAllister31Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary20 March 1972Killed alongside a colleague by a terrorist car bomb that exploded in Lower Donegall Street, Belfast.4 July 2025Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC56Governor of BermudaHMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office10 March 1973Sharples was killed outside Bermuda's Government House on 10 March 1973. An informal dinner party for a small group of guests had just concluded, when he decided to go for a walk with his Great Dane, Horsa, and his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers of the Welsh Guards. The two men and dog were ambushed and gunned down outside the Governor's residence. Following a police search, in 1976, Erskine Durrant "Buck" Burrows and Larry Tacklyn, who had ties to a Black Power group known as the Black Beret Cadre, were arrested. Both men were executed by hanging on 2 December 1977 at Casemates Prison, the first hanging in Bermuda since the Second World War. Burrows and Tacklyn would be the last people executed under British rule anywhere (the last hangings on British soil occurred in 1965).4 July 2025Royston Victor Jerred27Police ConstableSussex Police4 April 1973Killed when struck by a car while on a police motorcycle training course.4 July 2025John Doherty31Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary28 October 1973Doherty was shot by a terrorist gunman from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while visiting his mother in Lifford, County Donegal. He was the first RUC Constable to be killed in the Republic of Ireland during The Troubles.4 July 2025Robert Megaw29Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary1 December 1973Fatally shot by a terrorist sniper while on mobile patrol in Edward Street, Lurgan, County Armagh4 July 2025Dennis Arthur Smith QPM44Police ConstableDevon and Cornwall Police21 December 1973Smith was shot dead at point blank range in Torquay, by a man who went on to kill two other people at a nearby casino.4 July 2025Hamish Harry Pettit26FirefighterLondon Fire Brigade13 January 1974Pettit was killed during a fire at The Worsley Hotel in Maida Vale, London, after the ceiling collapsed in a room he and three other firefighters had entered on the second floor, trapping them. While the others were saved, Pettit died. Inspired by his brother's heroism, Pettit's brother joined the LFB in 1976, serving for 25 years.4 July 2025Cyril John Wilson36Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary17 March 1974Fatally shot when he was ambushed by terrorist gunmen while on mobile patrol in Rathmore, Craigavon, County Armagh.4 July 2025Keith Marshall22FirefighterWest Midlands Fire Service8 March 1974A build-up of toxic and highly inflammable gasses at a fire at Hurcott Mill, a 19th-century Mill in Kidderminster, caused a massive flashover, which claimed the lives of Marshall and Sub Officer Robert Albert Crampkin (not yet a recipient of the Elizabeth Emblem), the first officers to be killed in the 25-year history of the brigade.4 July 2025John Harrison Forsythe30Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary18 June 1974Killed while on foot patrol as he investigated a terrorist booby-trap bomb that exploded off Market Street, Lurgan, County Armagh.4 July 2025Ian Rodgers25Police ConstableGreater Manchester Police3 April 1975Struck by a train in Brinnington, having been responding to a report of children trespassing on the line. Rodgers suffered fatal injuries, dying approximately a week later.4 July 2025Andrew Alexander Baird37Reserve ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary14 October 1975Died three weeks after sustaining fatal injuries from the explosion of a terrorist booby-trap bomb in Portadown, County Armagh.4 July 2025Margaret Cherry Campbell24Reserve ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary21 November 1975Died from serious injuries received on 1 November while she was assisting other officers at the scene of a road traffic accident in Derry when they were struck by a speeding car.4 July 2025James Hunter33Police SergeantRoyal Ulster Constabulary15 May 1976Shot dead in terrorist sniper attack while on mobile patrol in Warrenpoint, County Down.4 July 2025John Aloysius Nichol19FirefighterNorthern Ireland Fire Brigade27 August 1976Attending a property fire, the building collapsed, trapping him and fellow firefighter, Des Moynes. While colleagues were able to release them, Nichol died.4 July 2025Albert Craig33Police SergeantRoyal Ulster Constabulary18 September 1976Fatally shot by terrorists in a passing vehicle as he directed traffic at Brownstone Road, Portadown, County Armagh.4 July 2025George William Barett43Sub OfficerWest Midlands Fire Service2 December 1976Barrett was on route to carry out a routine fire inspection when the Fire Service van he was driving was involved in a serious road traffic accident with a single decker bus.4 July 2025Patrick Liam McNulty30Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary27 January 1977Shot dead in a terrorist ambush after leaving his car at a garage in Strand Road, Derry.4 July 2025Kenneth William Sheehan19Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary8 April 1977Fatally shot, alongside a colleague, by terrorists in a car they had stopped while on mobile patrol.4 July 2025David Barnes44FirefighterRoyal Berkshire Fire Brigade15 September 1977Barnes and his colleague Neil Goldsmith (not yet a recipient of the Elizabeth Emblem) were responding to a fire in a large builders’ merchants store in Elgar Road, Reading when it partially collapsed, trapping them both. Both men had died by the time they were found, with a significant fire and continuing collapse of the building hampering rescue efforts.4 July 2025Paul Christopher Clout29Police ConstableSussex Police27 September 1977Killed when the police car in which he was travelling crashed while responding to an emergency call.4 July 2025Robert Albert James Struthers19Reserve ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary16 June 1978Fatally shot by two terrorist gunmen while off duty at his office in Foyle Street, Derry.4 July 2025William Herbert Turbitt46Police ConstableRoyal Ulster Constabulary17 June 1978Turbitt was shot and abducted by terrorists when he and Constable Hugh McConnell (not yet a recipient of the Elizabeth Emblem) were ambushed while sitting in their patrol car at Sturgan Brae, overlooking Camlough Reservoir, County Armagh.Turbitt's body was found three weeks later, on 10 July, at a derelict border farm in Crossmaglen. His colleague was shot dead during the ambush.4 July 2025Terence Kenneth Albert Saunders34FirefighterAvon Fire and Rescue6 November 1978Crush injuries resulting from an accident during practical drills4 July 2025Wesley Orr53Sub Northern Ireland Fire Brigade16 November 1978After two IRA terrorists held a security guard at gun point while planting a bomb in one of the warehouses at the Bass Charrington Brewery in Belfast, the bomb exploded, resulting in a fire. Leading his crew into the warehouse, a second blast occurred, killing Orr as he received the full force of the bomb. The other firefighter's suffered injuries of various degrees.4 July 2025Sir Richard Adam Sykes KCMG MC58British Ambassador to the NetherlandsHMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office, The Hague Netherlands22 March 1979Sykes was leaving his residence in The Hague at 9 am and was getting