David Evan Bowen Lewis - Essex County Constabulary.
Served from 19th March 1926. Died 14th July 1946.
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After spending some of his childhood in Hong Kong where his father worked
in the naval dockyard, Police Sergeant David Lewis eventually became a
policeman, and was stationed for ten years at Coggeshall.
David Lewis and his family were the first occupants of what was then
one of the county's newest police houses in `The Gravel'. He is still
remembered in the town today for helping to re-erect Coggeshall's church
bells so they could be rung on VE day.
After the war David Lewis was promoted to sergeant and posted to Ingatestone.
Three months later, on a July Sunday evening, he was called from his house
to deal with passengers refusing to leave an overcrowded bus; two young
men had to be forcibly ejected. Within a few minutes of the unexpected
exertion, David Lewis collapsed and died.
Police Sergeant 28. Serial Number 3131.
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