Person    | Male  Died 17/4/2009

PC Gary Toms

Categories: Armed Forces, Tragedy

From Police Memorial Trust: "PC Gary Toms and a colleague were in a marked police car in Ashlin Road, Stratford when they began to follow a car that had been reported as being used in a burglary in which a firearm was seen. The driver of the car rammed a number of police vehicles in an attempt to evade capture. It was whilst trying to stop the suspect's car that PC Toms sustained a fatal head injury from which he died six days later in hospital."

To us it seems unlikely that the chase started in Ashlin Road, since the memorial states that Toms fell in Ashlin Road. The BBC describe the chase in more detail, and more believably.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
PC Gary Toms

Commemorated ati

PC Gary Toms

Here fell PC Gary Toms, 11 April 2009.

Read More

Other Subjects

A. Blakely

A. Blakely

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Rifleman Herbert Allatson Heavingham

Rifleman Herbert Allatson Heavingham

Herbert Allatson Heavingham was born in 1894 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, the second of the three children of Herbert Edward Heavingham (1867-1942) and Christianna Heavingham née Taylor (1867-1943). His...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium, France

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Major Robert Rogers

Major Robert Rogers

Born in Massachusetts to Irish immigrants. Aged 8 his family moved to New Hampshire. Served in the British Army fighting the French and the native Americans. He created the Rogers' Rangers, who wer...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

1 memorial
ORP Conrad

ORP Conrad

Former Cruiser in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).

Vehicle, Armed Forces, Poland

1 memorial
Drummer Thomas Booth

Drummer Thomas Booth

Thomas Booth was born circa 1894 in Nowgong, East India, a son of Thomas and Agnes Elizabeth Booth. On 31 March 1901 when the 1901 census was undertaken, he is shown as a 6-year-old boy living at ...

Person, Armed Forces, France, India

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

Previously viewed

Vincent van Gogh - SW9

Vincent van Gogh - SW9

SW9, Hackford Road, 87

The house was up for sale in 2012 and the estate agents said the "property has been in the same family for more than 60 years and has man...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Civilian deaths in London caused by enemy action

Civilian deaths in London caused by enemy action

This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed in London by acts of war, including terrorism. It is related to a very interesting campaign for a Citizens Memorial "to...

Group, Tragedy

109 memorials
Yaakov Springer

Yaakov Springer

Weightlifting coach and wrestler. Also known as Yakov, he was born in Poland. During WW2 he took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Along with ten other team members, he was murdered by Palestinia...

Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland

1 memorial
Faraday Building North

Faraday Building North

Faraday Building North (FBN) was built in the late 1800s as an extension to what was at the time the Post Office Savings Bank HQ. That was on the other side of Knightrider Street, facing onto Queen...

Building, Other

2 memorials
J. Howes

J. Howes

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial