Iain Peter Ritchie

Died

3 November 1968

Age

Rank

Police Constable

Force

Inverness Burgh Police

Cause

Drowned

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Drowned, alongside a colleague, when they became trapped in a sluice while searching the Caledonian Canal for a missing youth.

Roll of Honour Citation

Drowned, alongside a colleague, when they became trapped in a sluice while searching the Caledonian Canal for a missing youth.

Circumstances

Whilst searching the Caledonian Canal at Corpach for a missing youth, he became trapped in a sluice at the bottom of a fifteen feet deep lock gate and was drowned.

Drowned alongside his colleague, DS David John Evan Lumsden, both of whom were members of the force’s Sub-Aqua Unit, when they became trapped in a sluice at the bottom of the fifteen-feet-deep lock gate, while searching the Caledonian Canal at Corpach for a missing youth.