Jeremaiah AMBROSE
Jeremaiah AMBROSE
AKA Jerry AMBROSE
* Nickname: ?
Late of Concord, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’ ?
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘:
Gwen AMBROSE, NSWPF # P/W 0204 ?
Patricia AMBROSE, NSWPF # P/W 0212 ?
Simon AMBROSE, NSWPF # 37104 ?
Scott AMBROSE, NSWPF # 38782 ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 112
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 3371
Regd# 12831
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 7 August 1967 ( aged 23 years, 4 months, 3 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Friday 15 September 1967 ( aged 23 years, 5 months, 11 days )
Constable – appointed 15 September 1968
Constable 1st Class – appointed 15 September 1972
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Senior Constable – appointed 15 September 1976
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 30 March 1983
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Inspector – appointed ? ? ?
Chief Inspector – appointed ? ? ?
Superintendent – appointed ? ? ?
Chief Superintendent – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = ?
Stations: ?, North Sydney HWP,
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 7 August 1967 to ? ? ? = ? years, ? months, ? days Service
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 7 August 1967 to ? ? ? = ? years, ? months, ? days Service
Time in Retirement from Police: ? years, ? months, ? days
Age at Retirement / Leaving: = ? years, ? months, ? days
Awards: National Medal – granted 9 August 1983 ( Sgt 3/c )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 16 September 1983 ( Sgt 3/c )
AKA Jerry AMBROSE
Born: Tuesday 4 April 1944 in Glantane, Mallow, Cork, Ireland
Died on: Thursday 18 December 2025
Age: 81 years, 8 months, 14 days
Organ Donor: NO – Age restrictive
Cause: Cancer – Mesothelioma
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Tuesday 23 December 2025 @ 10.30am
Funeral location: St. Ambrose Catholic Church, 2 Burke St, Concord West, NSW
LIVE STREAM ? TBA
Wake location: ? TBA
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ? Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2025 )
JERRY is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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May they forever Rest In Peace
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AKA Jerry AMBROSE
AMBROSE, Jerry
4.4.1944 – 19.12.2025
It is with great sadness that those who loved Jerry Ambrose announce he has passed to eternal life in the early hours on 19th December 2025, in Concord Sydney, close to his primary residence / home of over 45 years.
Jerry was surrounded by his family and went in peace. Beloved husband of Patricia and cherished father of Melissa, Katherine, Patrick, Suzanne and Siobhan. Forever loved and deeply missed.
For those wishing to view Jerry’s funeral service, being held on Tuesday 23rd of December at 10.30am in Sydney Australia, AEDT, please find the video link below. (Video link will be available for a month post funeral, allowing those who are unable to view the service via live steam to still have access to the service)
VIDEO LINK: Funeral service https://www.caktusproductions.com.au/jerryambrose ( expired & not downloaded unfortunately )
Gods love ~ a poem loved by Jerry
I found Him in the Whispering Pines And in the Beauty of a Rose
I found Him where the First Star Shines above a Summer Day’s Soft Close.
I found Him where the Storms Grow Wild.
I found Him in a Happy Face and the Manner of a Small Child revealing Loveliness and Grace.
I found Him in the Swinging Suns that wheel their way through Endless Space.
And in the Humblest Path that runs to Love’s Sequestered Dwelling Place.
I found Him where the Violets Dwell.
And where the Bluebirds Wheel and Dart….
But never really knew Him Well until I Found Him in My Heart.
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond’s glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush.
Of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.
Death Notice of Jeremiah Ambrose (Cork) | rip.ie
AKA Jerry AMBROSE
Around ’75 and Harry BRENNAN is giving the Maroubra HWP people a stir up, Bob ALLGOOD is behind him, Stevo Bill White and Jerry AMBROSE. Four out of the six have gone.
Was shot, in the stomach, by Jocky Smith at cnr Anzac Pde & Day Ave, Kensington, NSW during an armed robbery in December 1976.
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Tuesday 27 January 1976, page 9
Recovery
SYDNEY, Monday. — Constable Gerry Ambrose, 34, of Kensington, shot in the stomach on Wednesday night after a car chase through Kingsford, is making a steady recovery in the Prince of Wales Hospital.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110799270
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Thursday 15 September 1977, page 1
‘Jockey’ Smith captured
By PETER QUIDDINGTON
A man described by police as Australia’s most dangerous criminal, Mr Edward James “Jockey” Smith, was captured after a massive hunt lasting more than 10 hours in the area north of Nowra on the South Coast yesterday.
Last night he had been charged with a number of offences relating to the armed robbery of the CBC bank at South Hurstville, Sydney, earlier this month in which more than $180,000 was stolen.
More than 60 police and a Navy helicopter were involved in yesterday’s hunt which ended when Mr Smith was cornered in a telephone booth near Bomaderry railway station.
Police said Mr Smith had pushed a pistol into the stomach of one officer and after a struggle was arrested and taken to Nowra police station. He was also charged with resisting arrest and offering a bribe.
Detectives from Sydney had gone to Nowra earlier this week when it became known that Mr Smith was in the area.
A resident of Illaroo Street, North Nowra, alerted police early yesterday morning when he had heard shots being fired at a small cottage at the end of the road. It is believed that Mr Smith had been firing his pistol to try and keep his dog from barking.
Squads of police wearing bullet proof vests and carrying armalite rifles moved on the cottage at about 6am and arrested a 35-year-old woman, Miss Valerie Jane Hill, who was also charged in relation to the CBC robbery. Mr Smith had been spotted running into thick bush beside the Shoalhaven River. His dog had to be shot after it attacked one of the detectives.
However, a woman told police that Mr Smith had jumped into her car and offered her money to drive him to Bomaderry railway station so he could catch a train. She had done so in terror.
Mr Smith has been eluding police since 1974 when after borrowing a visitor’s pass used it to walk to freedom. Police were questioning him last night regarding the shooting of Police Constable Jerry Ambrose at Kingsford in December 1976 and the shooting and killing of a security guard at Chullora the same year.
In December 1974 he was arrested at gunpoint in Sydney with three other men and all were charged with the robbery of a $175,000 railway payroll at Redfern.
Mr Smith was granted $10,000 bail but he failed to appear in Sydney’s Central Criminal Court the next month. He was arrested again at gunpoint in Victoria in December 1974 as he sunbaked on Sandringham beach with a woman and her daughter.
Two days later he made his escape from Pentridge jail.
Early yesterday morning police raided two houses in Sydney and arrested two other men in relation to the robbery at the CBC Bank.
Mr Francis John Montgomery, 54, of Lambert Road, Bardwell Park and Mr Neil Geoffrey Collings, 26, of Broughton Street, Canterbury, were charged yesterday with assault and robbery in connection with the robbery.
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Thursday 9 August 1979, page 12
Policeman gets $9,000
SYDNEY: Police Constable Jeremiah Ambrose, who was shot in the stomach in the course of his duty in 1976, was awarded $9,000 compensation in the Supreme Court yesterday.
He already had been awarded the then maximum of $4,000 compensation in March, 1976, for his injury but the conviction and sentence against the man who shot him was set aside by the Court of Criminal Appeal in March, 1976, so making the compensation award void.
Constable Ambrose again applied under provisions which a person could claim compensation, even if an accused person had been acquitted.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110573364
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Friday 9 March 1979, page 3
SYDNEY: The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed yesterday the conviction and set aside the life sentence imposed on Mr Edward James Smith, 36, on a charge of the attempted murder of a policeman in 1976.
The three judges found that Mr Smith’s conviction was unsafe and unsatisfactory.
The unanimous judgement was given by the Chief Justice of NSW, Sir Laurence Street, Mr Justice Lee and Mr Justice Lusher.
In March last year, Mr Smith had pleaded not guilty to having wounded Constable Jeremiah Ambrose in Sydney on January 21, 1976, with intent to murder him.
At the trial held in the Parramatta Supreme Court the Crown alleged Constable Ambrose was shot in the stomach after a car chase at Kensington.
A jury found Mr Smith guilty of the charge and Mr Justice Slattery sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The Senior Public Defender, Mr Howard Purnell, QC, submitted to the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday that the Crown case had been very weak.
Mr Purnell told the court one of his primary grounds of appeal was that Constable Ambrose had failed to identify Mr Smith as his alleged attacker until some 22 months after the incident in which he was shot.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110933792
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Wednesday 28 January 1976, page 7
NSW firearms law ‘ineffective’
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The shooting of two policemen in six days highlighted how ineffective the new firearms legislation was, the Secretary of the NSW Police Association said today.
“The legislation has not and will not change the readiness by which criminals can get hold of guns”, Mr Robert Page said.
“It also shows how a policeman’s job is getting more and more dangerous.
“The gun laws, should have been framed to licence the weapons, not the shooter.
“They have not stopped the flow of firearms into peoples homes”.
Under the new legislation people are allowed to have legal firearms in their homes but have to have a shooting licence to carry them outside their homes or fire them.
On Wednesday Constable Gerry Ambrose, 34, was shot in the stomach with a .45 hand gun at Kensington, when he and another highway patrol man chased a car driving without lights.
He is in the Prince of Wales Hospital in a satisfactory condition.
Police are still searching for two gunmen.
On Monday another highway patrolman, Constable George Bishop, was shot in the left shoulder at Narrandera. His condition is satisfactory.
Mr Page said the two shootings would naturally make police more cautious in their approach to suspect vehicles.
The police department had instructions on how police were to approach vehicles.
The police were always to keep the driver under observation and not to pull up in front of a vehicle they had ordered to stop and then walk back.
He doubted it would ever come to the position as in the United States, where drivers of stopped vehicles were expected to stay motionless at the wheel until the policeman could check their identification.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110799591
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
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Cal
20 December 2025
