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Walter Lewis "Wally" Bridgland A.M., O.B.E., J.P. (23 March 1908 – 30 July 1987) was a prominent South Australian businessman and a Lord Mayor of Adelaide. ==History== 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 He was a student at Pulteney Street School (later to become Pulteney Grammar School), then at Queen's College in North Adelaide. He excelled at schoolboy athletics, cricket and football but like his father, his passion was for swimming, eventually becoming President and a Life Member of the SA Amateur Swimming Association. In 1932 he was instrumental in saving a man who was drowning in the sea off Glenelg and was awarded a medal by the Royal Humane Society. His home for most of his adult life was in Pier Street Glenelg, just a few minutes' walk from the beach. Wally joined the Cadets while at high school, then after leaving school in 1924, while working as accountant for his father's finance company, enrolled with the CMF, and served in the AIF during World War II, initially with the Light Horse Regiment, which became the Armoured Corps. Because of his experience in the CMF he received a commission and later became a captain. He was transferred to the RAEME in a Docks Operating Company in charge of the harbour at Madang. Later he was stationed at a hotel in Willunga in charge of Italian POWs who were working farms south of Adelaide. After the war he rejoined the CMF, retiring in 1957. In 1946, after demobbing, he set up a business at 91a Gawler Place "W. L. Bridgland children's furnishings" selling nursery furniture. The shop grew to specialise in play equipment, toys and hobbies. His son Michael joined the business in 1951 and was made a partner in 1957 and a second shop in 81 Gawler Place specialising in models, particularly model trains was opened and as "Bridgland's Hobbies" became their sole outlet some time around 1970. The business closed in 1986. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Lewis Bridgland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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