Pocatello, Idaho, USA. Detective Samuel Garbett, Died in the call of duty, 23/71924.
“Samuel G. Garbett came to his death Wednesday, July 23 through a gunshot wound inflicted by one George Rivea while in the performance of his duty as a police officer of the city of Pocatello.”
CHIEF’S BULLET STOPPED GUNMAN
(As reported by the Pocatello Tribune, Thursday Evening July 24, 1924)
LEHRBAS’ ALSO HIT BUT STRICKEN MAN’S NERVE IS UNSHAKEN
When a gunman named George Rivea yesterday afternoon attempted to evade arrest by drawing a revolver and firing four shots at Chief of Police L.A.Lehrbas and City Detective Sam Garbett, he doubtless little reckoned that he would soon be an occupant of the morgue because of his foolhardiness in underestimating the chief’s prowess with a gun.
The gun battle occurred on East Wyeth, late yesterday afternoon, as the police chief and the detective were responding to a call for the arrest of Rivea, who is alleged to be a native of the West Indies. Detective Garbett had alighted from the car as the gunman was sighted near the Gates pool hall, and had summoned the individual to stop. Rivea whipped out a revolver and fired two shots, one of them going through the windshield and striking the chief under the right eye, and the other killing Detective Garbett. The other shots were fired by th gunman by the time the nervy chief got his own gun into action and put a bullet through the assailant, near the heart.
The tragedy stirred the city in very short order and large crowds assembled along the route taken by the wounded officer to the hospital and the ambulance conveying the dead men to the mortuary.
who died on
Monday, 23rd December 1940. Age 33.
Additional Information: Fireman, A.F.S.; of 44 Wentworth Avenue, Weaste. Husband of Annie Garbett. Injured at Kershaw's Bleach Works; died at Salford Royal Hospital.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: COUNTY BOROUGH OF SALFORD, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register
Lieutenant
H.M. Submarine Simoom, Royal Navy
who died on
Friday, 19th November 1943. Age 21.
Additional Information: Son of Leonard Gillilan Garbett and Mary Millicent Helen Garbett, of Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 72, Column 3.
Location: The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common overlooking the promenade, and is accessible at all times.
Historical Information: After the 1914-1918 War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty Committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form; an obelisk which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. The memorials, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer with sculptures and reliefs by Charles Wheeler, William McMillan and Esmond Burton, consist of a stone tower supported by four corner buttresses, each with a lion couchant. Towards the top, the tower branches out in the form of four ships' prows. Above them are representations of the four winds, which in turn support a larger copper sphere symbolising the globe. The names of over 9,500 sailors commemorated on the memorial at Portsmouth are cast on bronze panels placed on the buttresses, and the sides of the tower bear the names of the principal naval engagements fought in the war and an inscription that reads: IN HONOUR OF THE NAVY AND TO THE ABIDING MEMORY OF THOSE RANKS AND RATINGS OF THIS PORT WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE AND HAVE NO OTHER GRAVE THAN THE SEA After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval dead without graves of that war. For Portsmouth, a walled sunken garden to the landward side of the First World War obelisk was built with almost 15,000 names on bronze name panels fixed along the wall. The central section of the wall immediately beneath the tower is inscribed with the following words from Chapter 44 of the Book of Ecclesiasticus: ALL THESE WERE HONOURED IN THEIR GENERATIONS AND WERE THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES. The architect for the Second World War extension was Sir Edward Maufe.