Calgary's Fallen Firefighters

We recognize all Calgary firefighters that we have lost to both active firefighting and due to illnesses and injury related to firefighting. To honour our city’s fallen firefighters, the Calgary Fire Department and their Honour Guard hold an annual ceremony on the second Tuesday in September at the City of Calgary Municipal Building, in the Police Officers and Firefighters Tribute Plaza.

Police Officers and Firefighters Tribute Plaza

To pay tribute to Calgary’s police officers and firefighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty, the Police Officers and Firefighters Tribute Plaza opened in Jan. 2006 in front of Calgary’s Municipal Building on Macleod Trail. The most striking feature of the Plaza is the three-story-tall monument Walls of Memory/Lantern of Light which features stone-clad walls covered in historic photographs at the base of a tower of steel and coloured glass that opens to the sky.

Calgary Fire Department Fallen Firefighters

Hugh McShane, Firefighter
4 years of service
Apparatus accident, Nov. 17, 1923
Arthur Simmons, Captain
37 years of service
Union Packing Plant fire, Dec. 30, 1948
Norman Cocks, Firefighter
4 years of service
Training accident, May 8, 1962
Lloyd Dutnall, Lieutenant
18 years of service
Calgary Stockyards fire, Sept. 6, 1970
Harold Smith, Lieutenant
26 years of service
McTavish Block fire, May 26, 1971
Jerald Walter, Firefighter
1 years of service
Beachcomber Night Club fire, April 19, 1972
David Allan, Firefighter
21 years of service
Apparatus accident, Aug. 25, 1976
George R. Look, Firefighter
1 years of service
Manchester Racquet Club fire, Jan. 1, 1981
Arthur Scotten, Captain
29 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Dec. 3, 1985
Morley James, Senior Firefighter
17 years of service
Forest Lawn Hotel fire, July 13, 1992
Ron J. Renard, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, July 2, 1998
Donald G. Kennedy, Lieutenant
23 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Feb. 16, 1989
Kenneth D. Moody, Division Chief
37 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Sept. 14, 1999
Maurice Simonin, Division Chief
36 years of service
Occupational Cancer, March 21, 2000
Garry Kendall, Captain
28 years of service
Occupational Cancer, July 21, 2000
Terrance Burton, Senior Firefighter
21 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Nov. 16, 2000
George Heming, Chief Training Officer
33 years of service
Occupational Cancer, June 26, 2003
Edward Briggs, Captain
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Jan. 23, 2004
William Beattie, Deputy Chief
35 years of service
Occupational Cancer, May 9, 2005
Alan H. Edwards, Captain
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, May 12, 2005
Thomas Minhinnett, Fire Chief
37 years of service
Occupational Cancer, June 28, 2005
Reuben Poffenroth, District Chief
35 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Sept. 5, 2005
Robert Elder, Firefighter
11 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Sept. 9, 2005
James Symon, Captain
31 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Nov. 24, 2005
James Keats, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, May 30, 2006
Bruce Dancy, Captain
27 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 31, 2006
Sidney Gilbert, District Chief
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, March 15, 2007
Gordon Paul, Senior Firefighter
17 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 7, 2007
Olaf Wilson, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Oct. 17, 2007
James Carrington, Division Chief
38 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Nov. 24, 2008
C. Ronald Lindberg, Captain
29 years of service
Occupational Cancer, May 18, 2010
Bruce Seitz, Captain
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 11, 2010
Robert Derrheim, Captain
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, July 11, 2011
Rik J. Taylor, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, April 23, 2012
Wayne Morris, Fire Chief
38 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 1, 2012
Leslie Badry, District Chief
34 years of service
Occupational Cancer, March 6, 2013
Allan Anderson, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, April 9, 2013

Robert D. Moore, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 11, 2013
Henry (Hank) Goldsworthy, Captain
33 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Sept. 7, 2013
William McCaw, Captain
28 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Sept. 11, 2013
Neville Cave, District Chief
35 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Feb. 13, 2014
Richard Befus, District Chief
32 years of service
Occupational Cancer, July 31, 2014
John McLeod, District Chief
36 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Nov. 6, 2014
Francois Rivest, Training Officer
33 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Aug. 17, 2015
Ross P. Ellison, Captain
33 years of service
Occupational Cancer, Oct. 9, 2016
James Brosh, District Chief
32 years of service
Occupational cancer, February 20, 2017
Paul Baker, Captain
34 years of service
Occupational cancer, March 17, 2017
Donald M. McDougall, District Chief
36 years of service
Occupational cancer, May 15, 2017
Glenn G. Adams, Captain
32 years of service
Occupational cancer, December 11, 2017
David E. Rothery, District Chief
34 years of service
Occupational cancer, March 20, 2018
Robert Allan, Captain
30 years of service
Occupational illness, June 22, 2018
- Douglas Robb, Division Chief
  37 years of service
  Occupational cancer, January 18, 2019
- Daniel O. Praud, Captain
  30 years of service
  Occupational cancer, February 11, 2019
- Gene M. Paulson, Captain
  34 years of service
  Occupational cancer, March 13, 2019
- Vance C. Ertmoed, Captain
  30 years of service
  Occupational cancer, October 13, 2019
- Ervin Boettcher, Captain
  30 years of service
  Occupational cancer, February 20, 2020
- Harry W. Skakum, Senior Firefighter
  26 years of service
  Occupational cancer, April 9, 2020
- John C. Doherty, Captain
  28 years of service
  Occupational cancer, May 5, 2020
- Roger K. Thompson, Captain
  31 years of service
  Occupational cancer, May 20, 2020
- Donald G. Taylor, Captain
  34 years of service
  Occupational cancer, May 26, 2020
- Gary L. Pozzo, Captain
  30 years of service
  Occupational cancer, April 6, 2021
- Derek M. Sharman, Sr. Firefighter
  14 years of service
  Occupational injury, May 6, 2021
- Leonard Maddison, Captain
  31 years of service
  Occupational cancer, September 9, 2021
- Ted Stewart, Captain
  36 years of service
  Occupational cancer, January 19, 2022
- Raymond D. Ross, Captain
  37 years of service
  Occupational cancer, January 28, 2022
- Robert G. Yeats, Captain
  36 years of service
  Occupational cancer, April 12, 2022
- Captain John Wallebeck
  31 years of service
  Occupational cancer, May 4, 2022
- R. Scott Bothwell, Captain
  28 years of service
  Occupational cancer, May 29, 2022
- M. Wesley Carr, Captain
  31 years of service
  Occupational cancer, July 10, 2022
- Troy E. Koch, Captain
  34 years of service
  Occupational cancer, August 22, 2022
- Allan O. Little, Captain
  27 years of service
  Occupational cancer, November 7, 2022
- Grant P. Shultz, Captain
  32 years of service
  Occupational illness, February 15, 2023
- Billy B. Stewart, Senior Firefighter
  16 years of service
  Occupational cancer, November 10, 2023