BiographySylvia Critchley lived at 95 Oxford Street, Smithfield and was a member of the fourth generation of Critchleys to live in Smithfield. Her great grandparents Samuel and Mary Ann Critchley migrated to Australia from England in 1839.
Sylvia was involved with the Smithfield branch of the National Emergency Service (NES) during World War II.
Much of the memorabilia she kept relating to her activities during the war was donated to Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, and includes her NES gas mask and knapsack, and instruction book she kept relating to NES procedures such as first aid, aircraft identification, building air raid shelters and other emergency procedures.
Sylvia also had a lifelong association as organist with the local St. James church of England to which she left part of her estate, after her death in 1990.
