Walter Lewis Bridgland

Walter Lewis Bridgland

• Australian World War II Nominal Roll, 1939-1945
• Birth: Mar 23 1908 - Greenbushes, Western Australia, Australia
• Residence: Glenelg, South Australia, Australia
• Enlistment: July 6 1942 - Gherang, Victoria, Australia
• Discharge date: July 4 1946

Walter Lewis Bridgland
Australia, Queensland Deaths
Birth: 1908
Death: July 30 1987 - Queensland, Australia
Father: Harrie Walter Bridgland
Mother: Hannah Maud Cohen

Walter Lewis "Wally" Bridgland AM OBE JP (23 March 1908 – 30 July 1987) was a prominent South Australian businessman and a Lord Mayor of Adelaide

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Wally was born at the tin mining town of Greenbushes, Western Australia, where his newly-wed parents Harrie Walter Bridgland (31 May 1879 – 17 October 1947) and Hannah Maud Bridgland, née Cohen, (1876 – 13 June 1958) had set up a store. A year later they returned to Adelaide, living for much of his early life at the Barnard Street, North Adelaide home of the hospitable grandparents Lewis and Selina Cohen; his mother helped run the household. Around 1925 the Cohens moved into an apartment in Colley Terrace, Glenelg and Wally's parents moved to 59 Partridge Street, Glenelg

Walter was the only son of Harrie Walter Bridgland (31 May 1879 – 17 October 1947) whose father Walter James Bridgland died on 20 September 1878 and whose mother Mary Ann Bridgland (née Wigzell) (ca. June 1856 – 7 January 1885) subsequently married Vaiben Louis Solomon on 6 December 1880 in Darwin, Northern Territory. Harrie grew up with the surname Solomon, but the relationship with his adoptive father broke down irrevocably some time before 1903 and he resumed his birth name. Thirty years later he acknowledged the father he never knew and not his stepfather.

Walter's mother, Hannah Maud Bridgland (1876 – 13 June 1958), was a daughter of Sir Lewis Cohen, several times mayor of Adelaide.

Walter married Elizabeth Grace "Betty" Saunders (23 June 1906 – 1994), daughter of Rachel "Ray" and Solomon "Sol" Saunders, on 9 April 1929[4] after he had undergone Jewish studies and learned Hebrew (though Jewish by birth, he had a secular upbringing). They had two children:

• Margot Elizabeth (1930 – ) married Keith Bailey in 1958
• Michael Walter (1933 – ) married Janet Crossley in 1954