Born in Dunedin, 1 of 7 children to Frederick Orlando Bridgeman (Consular Agent in Otago for the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands) & Florence Letitia NEILL (her father was Percival C. Neill, Consul for France at Dunedin, came from the north of Ireland, her mother was a daughter of Captain Foster FYANS, 4th King's Own)
not married
Enlistment address Kaitoe Station, Waikouaiti
2nd Lieutenant (Trooper at Gallipoli and Egypt), gained his Commission on the Western Front. Twice wounded. He was F.O.O for his battery at Messines and established an Observation Post well forward when the infantry reached their final objective. During a counter attack the enemy put down a barrage which wounded one of his two telephonists, and, under fire, 2nd Lieutenant Bridgeman dressed the mans wounds and carried him back to a dressing station.
Serial number 9/15
Unit Otago Mounted Rifles
Date of death - 14-11-1918 aged 26 during the Flu pandemic of disease contracted while training
not married
Enlistment address Kaitoe Station, Waikouaiti
2nd Lieutenant (Trooper at Gallipoli and Egypt), gained his Commission on the Western Front. Twice wounded. He was F.O.O for his battery at Messines and established an Observation Post well forward when the infantry reached their final objective. During a counter attack the enemy put down a barrage which wounded one of his two telephonists, and, under fire, 2nd Lieutenant Bridgeman dressed the mans wounds and carried him back to a dressing station.
Serial number 9/15
Unit Otago Mounted Rifles
Date of death - 14-11-1918 aged 26 during the Flu pandemic of disease contracted while training
Born in Dunedin, 1 of 7 children to Frederick Orlando Bridgeman (Consular Agent in Otago for the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands) & Florence Letitia NEILL (her father was Percival C. Neill, Consul for France at Dunedin, came from the north of Ireland, her mother was a daughter of Captain Foster FYANS, 4th King's Own)
not married
Enlistment address Kaitoe Station, Waikouaiti
2nd Lieutenant (Trooper at Gallipoli and Egypt), gained his Commission on the Western Front. Twice wounded. He was F.O.O for his battery at Messines and established an Observation Post well forward when the infantry reached their final objective. During a counter attack the enemy put down a barrage which wounded one of his two telephonists, and, under fire, 2nd Lieutenant Bridgeman dressed the mans wounds and carried him back to a dressing station.
Serial number 9/15
Unit Otago Mounted Rifles
Date of death - 14-11-1918 aged 26 during the Flu pandemic of disease contracted while training
not married
Enlistment address Kaitoe Station, Waikouaiti
2nd Lieutenant (Trooper at Gallipoli and Egypt), gained his Commission on the Western Front. Twice wounded. He was F.O.O for his battery at Messines and established an Observation Post well forward when the infantry reached their final objective. During a counter attack the enemy put down a barrage which wounded one of his two telephonists, and, under fire, 2nd Lieutenant Bridgeman dressed the mans wounds and carried him back to a dressing station.
Serial number 9/15
Unit Otago Mounted Rifles
Date of death - 14-11-1918 aged 26 during the Flu pandemic of disease contracted while training
Inscription
9/15 2nd LT
G. C. Bridgeman M.C.
Field Artillery
Died 14-11-1918
N.Z.E.F.
Aged 26
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