In Memory of Reg.#10850, S/Sgt. Ted Turner

In Memory of Reg.#10850, S/Sgt. Ted Turner

'Friends Not Forgotten'

Vets in 'E' Division seem not to have much difficulty when it comes to solving major problems or huge mysteries.

But, the case at hand is only one half a full mystery yet it has our 'E' Div Vets fully baffled.

The member in the photo is (now deceased) S/Sgt.  Edward Perkin 'Ted' Turner. He joined the Force in 1930 and he retired in 1961 -- just a couple years before I arrived at Burnaby Detachment. 

S/Sgt. Turner died in 2004, at the time, he was 101 years of age and thought to be the oldest surviving member at that time.

The big mystery is the location where the photo was taken? Some Vets think it may have been taken at Burnaby Detachment?

Well, I think they are 100% correct -- in fact, as I recall the office occupied by S/Sgt. Turner is the 'ole Traffic Office on the main floor of the old Edmonds & Kingsway Detachment. 

Members entered the old Kingsway Detachment through the ground floor rear door off the police car parking lot (south). As one entered the building, the cell block was on the left and the members typing room was on the right. The short corridor led to a larger room which was the Parade Room. Immediate to the right were the stairs leading up to the General Office. 

Just beyond the stairs, was the entrance into the Traffic Office. If one continued into the Traffic Office, one came to the NCO i/c Office which was on the far left sitting in the north east corner of the building. In 1965, the NCO ic Traffic was S/Sgt. Henry Klick and I believe it's the location of where this photo was taken. 

It seems to me that S/Sgt. Klick was the only member who qualified for a sink! And the reason for his special status?

S/Sgt. Klick was a Traffic Man! And that's what made him special to this very day.

For attention of:  

Staff Sergeant Major  Robert R. Underhill

Ceremonial, Protocol and Support N.C.O.  

"E" Division Headquarters 

and

S/S/M John Buis, Burnaby Detachment

and 

Vet. Dan Lemieux 

I think it's only fair that Ms Jackson, former assistant to the NCO's I/c Traffic be the final decider of this case?

'Maintain Our Memories'

J. J. Healy,

Reg/#23685