Person    | Male  Born 3/10/1968  Died 22/3/2017

Keith Palmer

Police Constable 4157U, Keith David Palmer.

From the Police Memorial Trust: "PC Palmer, though unarmed, stopped a knife-wielding terrorist from entering the Palace of Westminster during the 2017 Westminster attack; he died from wounds he received in this attack" and he was posthumously awarded the George Medal.

Our picture source gives a biographical account of this police officer and from the Find a Grave website we learn that his body was cremated after his funeral service at Southwark Cathedral.

His name is also recorded in the UK Police Roll of Honour that is displayed in the National Police Memorial on Cambridge Green, Horse Guards Road, London, SW1, in the Book of Remembrance at the Metropolitan Police Memorial, Peel Centre, Aerodrome Road, Hendon, London, NW9 5JE and in the Metropolitan Police Roll of Honour at New Scotland Yard, Curtis Green Building, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London SW1A 2JL.

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