Jasper Keepence

PC Keepence and three other officers were in a van returning to Trowbridge from Marlborough Sessions when the harness to the horse drawing the vehicle broke and caused the animal to bolt, such that two officers and another man decided to jump from the van.

Jasper died instantly after dislocating his neck while the second other officer was bruised and shaken and the other man was seriously injured.

Another two officers who were riding at the front of the vehicle were thrown into the van and they and the civilian passengers who remained in the vehicle all escaped unharmed.

PC Keepence who was buried in his native Wilsford, near Devizes, left a young wife.