Detective Inspector Wallace Chalmers QPM

Detective Inspector Wallace Chalmers QPM

Died: 
6th January 1963
Waitakere Ranges, West Auckland. Posthumously awarded Queen's Police Medal

Detective Inspector Chalmers and Detective Sergeant Power were called to a shooting, one civilian was killed while another was severely wounded.

In an attempt to contain the gunman, Chalmers and Power were shot and killed. The gunman was later declared insane.

Head and shoulders photograph of Detective Inspector Wallace Chalmers.