Our Hero Remembered

Edward Lynch
Officer
Edward Lynch
Boston
Police Department
End of Service: March 6, 1964
Incident Detail:

Edward C. Lynch. Patrolman Lynch was a U.S Army veteran of the Korean War. He had served with the Boston Police Department for five years and was assigned to District 11, Dorchester. He was survived by his wife, and two children. Lynch succumbed to injuries sustained five days earlier when his personal vehicle crashed head-on into a bridge abutment at a high rate of speed on the Atlantic Railroad Bridge at 165 Hancock Street in Quincy while pursuing a stolen vehicle.