Samuel Steven Kidwiler

Brunswick Police Department — Brunswick, MD

Accident Veteran

End of Watch March 28, 1971

Age 27

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 3

Incident

Patrolman Samuel Kidwiler succumbed to a head injury he sustained on March 12th, 1971, when he fell from a fire truck on Maryland 478, one-half mile east of Knoxville, while assisting the fire department.

The fire company was returning from a call near Knoxville and Patrolman Kidwiler was riding the back step when the leather strap he was holding broke and he fell from the truck causing his death.

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Added to badge.nw: April 2, 2026
Last updated: July 23, 2026

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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Kidwiler served with the Brunswick Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Brunswick community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Brunswick Police Department

Location Brunswick, MD

Platform Identity bpd.frederick.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 28, 1971

Age 27

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Samuel Steven Kidwiler served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Patrolman Samuel Steven Kidwiler is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 6.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Brunswick Police Department, 3 of 4 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 75% of this agency's fallen.

Brunswick Police Department

of 4 officers

75% Accident

MD — Statewide

140

of 377 officers

37.1% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident