Sidney Townley
Badge #82
1922-1940
Sidney served the Fire Department for 18 years and finished his career as a captain. He was dischaged due to being unfit for duty because of injuries received throughout his career.
On January 27, 1933, he "was severely injured due to a collision between the ladder truck on which he was riding and another vehicle, suffering a broken leg and a fractured skull, from which latter injury he has not made a successful recovery, although endeavouring to carry out his duties up to the present and in spite of several other accidents since that time." - City Sollicitor, December 1940.
Also in December of 1940, Dr, Allan R. Morton, City Medical Officer, and Dr. W. Alan Curry, Physician, have reported that "Captain Sidney Townley be and he is declared to be incapacitated and unfit for the discharge of his duties and that he be retired from his office or employment under the provisions of Section 868 of the City Charter, the same to be effective as and from January 1st, 1941 and that as and from that date he receive from the Firemen's Superannuation Fund such allowance as he may be entitled to receive as provided by said Section 868 [...]"
Sid was born in 1896 and he died in 1982, at age 86, and he is buried in the Fairview cemetery.