Northern Ireland Prison Officers who died in service
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Officer R Walker, who was murdered in 1942, was the first prison officer to die as a result of his employment. Twenty-nine staff members lost their lives during the Troubles between 1974 and 1993, and officer David Black was murdered in November 2012.
The list includes:
:: R Walker
:: William McCully
:: P C Dillon
:: John D Cummings
:: Robert John Hamilton
:: John Wesley Milliken
:: Thomas Graham Fenton
:: Desmond Ernest Irvine
:: Albert Miles
:: John Murdie McTier
:: Patrick Mackin
:: Michael Christopher Cassidy
:: Agnes Jean Wallace
:: George Foster
:: Edward Donald Jones
:: Thomas Gilhooley
:: David Teeney
:: Gerald Francis Melville
:: William Wright
:: William Wilson
:: Graham Cox
:: William Cecil Burns
:: Elizabeth Matilda Chambers
:: James Andrew Ferris
:: William McConnell
:: Patrick Thomas Kerr
:: Leslie Jarvis
:: Brian Samuel Armour
:: John Griffiths
:: James Alexander Peacock
:: David Black