Nathanael Edgar

Died

13 February 1948

Age

Rank

Police Constable

Force

Metropolitan Police

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally shot by a man who was wanted after deserting from the Army two years earlier.

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally shot by a man who was wanted after deserting from the Army two years earlier.

Circumstances

Having become suspicious of a male PC Edgar and his colleague approached but the male made off. Separating PC Edgar traced the male but was fatally shot. The male was wanted by the Military Police having deserted from the Army two years earlier.

Fatally shot by a man who, earlier, had run off when PC Edgar and a colleague approached him after becoming suspicious of him while on plain clothes duty investigating burglaries in Wades Hill and Winchmore Hill, North London.

After separating from his colleague PC Edgar located the man who then shot him. The man was wanted by the Military Police, having deserted from the Army two years earlier.