Gordon Arnott Anderson

Died

23 April 1982

Age

Rank

Constable

Force

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

Road Traffic Collision (RTC)

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally injured, alongside two colleagues, when their RUC vehicle struck a bridge wall as they responded to an emergency call.

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally injured, alongside two colleagues, when their RUC vehicle struck a bridge wall as they responded to an emergency call.

Circumstances

Fatally injured in a police vehicle crash responding to an emergency.

While responding to an emergency call concerning an assault at a public house in Armagh City, Constable Anderson and two colleagues, Constable Denis Joseph Maguire and Reserve Constable Mabel Elizabeth Cheyne, were killed when their RUC vehicle ran out of control and struck a bridge wall at Ballymoran, between Armagh and Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.