2017 Honoree Nathan Rabison | Unity Hospital

Nathan Rabison, 28, died in the line of duty July 29, 1946, when the ambulance he was traveling in collided with a trolley.

Rabison was an ambulance surgeon for Unity Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

“Patrolman Dominic Gerardi, 38, attached to the emergency squad of Miller Avenue precinct, who was administering the oxygen [and] the patient…were shaken up but went home after treatment,” the New York Times article reads in part. The hospital was unable to give the paper further information on Rabison at the time the paper went to press.