Stamp had joined the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in 1925 at age 20 and went on to become a light heavyweight champion who fought many of the best boxers in his weight class in Canada and the United States.
Stamp was known and loved by the children of the community whom followed along on sections of his beat chatting and playing and occasionally enjoyed a sweet distributed by the kind officer.
Stamp died suddenly collapsing while writing up his police report at the station, then located in the lowest level of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland courthouse.
While working the beat in St. John's on May 27, 1954 at 1:35 a.m., he chased and arrested two American servicemen for assault and disorderly conduct, one of whom had thrown a rock while attempting to flee striking Stamp in the forehead.
Stamp was immortalized on Sunday, September 25, 2005, when his name was engraved on the National Police and Peace Officers Memorial panel on Parliament Hill, Ottawa.