The Wall of Honor, located in the New York State Police Academy in Albany, New York, honors troopers who have died in service to the residents of New York State.
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On August 23, 1934, Trooper George J. VanAntwerp, 30, died after his motorcycle collided with a car on the Albany-Crescent Road (present day Route 9 near Bought Corners).
On October 13, 1933, Trooper Jerome B. Nugent, 25, died from a fractured skull after being thrown from his motorcycle on Forestville-Sheridan Road, Chautauqua County.
On August 13, 1933, Trooper Thomas L. Corbett died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident on January 14, 1931 in the town of Caledonia, Livingston County.
On June 19, 1933, Sergeant Homer J. Harrison, 41, commander of the Castile area of Wyoming County, drown in Silver Lake when his small boat overturned.
On March 31, 1933, Sergeant Walter A. Purcell died when his neck was broken by the steering wheel of the open touring car he was driving on the Amsterdam-Scotia Road.