On Anzac Day, the Queensland Police Service pauses to remember the 30 Queensland Police officers who lost their lives on duty in World War I.
Dedicated to serving their country, many police officers applied for leave of absence from the police force to join the other Australians fighting overseas.
One of our officers was killed at Gallipoli in Turkey on April 25, 1915, the day we officially mark as ANZAC Day.
Before the year’s end, another four had died in action in Turkey and three more had succumbed to injury or illness elsewhere.
Australian troops began landing in France in April 2016, and 14 of our officers were lost on the fiery battlefields of France and a further five in Belgium over the following two years.
Two officers died in the Middle East in 1918, and one died a Prisoner of War in Germany in the closing chapters of the ‘war to end all wars’.
Eighteen of these officers were in their 20s, the youngest 22 and the oldest 41.
We remember them all.
With honour, they served.
