Charles Waters

Died

14 November 1876

Age

Rank

Police Constable

Force

Monmouthshire Constabulary

Cause

Accident

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Died in the infirmary having been crushed under a wheel of his cart after giving chase when his horse bolted.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died in the infirmary having been crushed under a wheel of his cart after giving chase when his horse bolted.

Circumstances

The officer was discharging his duty as a weights and measures inspector when the horse pulling his cart bolted causing him to fall under the wheels where he was crushed.

About 3:00pm on Tuesday 14th November 1876, PC Waters was unloading his horse-drawn cart at the police station in Bridge Street, Newport, when the horse bolted.

The weights and measures inspector chased after the horse and cart but as he caught up with them in Caxton Place, he fell and one of the cart’s wheels passed over his body.

He was taken to the local infirmary where he died two hours later.

Charles had served in the Constabulary for nineteen years and left a wife and several children.

He was buried in Llanvihangel Churchyard, Pontypool.