9/15 2nd Lieutenant Guy Bridgeman, MC, 5/11/1893-14/11/1918

SERGEANT BRIDGEMAN. 

Mr F. O. Bridgeman has received advice from Malta through a private source that his son, Sergeant Guy Bridgeman, who was seriously wounded in the chest during the recent big engagement at the Dardanelles, is steadily improving and that he has been sent to England.  -Otago Daily Times, 7/9/1915.

Sergeant Guy Bridgeman, of the New Zealand Artillery, has received a commission in the field, "somewhere in France." Lieutenant Bridgeman left New Zealand a corporal in the Otago Mounted Rifles.  -Press, 15/9/1916.

Guy Bridgeman's MC citation:

February 26th to September 20th 1917. An exceptionally plucky young officer. He has done very good work as Forward Observation Officer at different times. 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 counterattack the enemy put down a barrage which wounded one of his two telephonists and, under fire, Lieutenant Bridgeman dressed the man's wound and carried him back to a dress station.'' - London Gazette, 1/1/1918. 

TABLE TALK

Mr and Mrs F. O. Bridgeman were passengers by the north express on Monday to meet their son, Lieutenant Guy Bridgeman, M.C., who left with the Main Body, and has been invalided home, he has been severely wounded at Passehendaele Ridge.  -Otago Witness, , 20/3/1918.

TABLE TALK

Messrs J. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company opened their season at His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday evening in a charmingly pretty and bright presentation of "Katinka." The costumes and grouping and lighting and rich colour effects and the tuneful music met with the warm approval of the largo audience, and a special welcome was extended to Miss Florence Young. Miss Gladys Moncrieff as "Katinka," Mr Reginald Roberts as "Toan," and Mr Phil Smith as Mr Hopper gave excellent interpretations of their respective parts, and the Russian dancers (Miss Kitty Denver and Mr Cyril Ritchard) gained much applause for their graceful dancing. Among the audiences during the week I noticed Mr and Mrs Edgar Hazlett, Mr and Mrs A. Sidey, Mr and Mrs F. Oldham, Mr and Mrs Black, Captain and Mrs Nedwill (Christchurch), Miss Denniston, Major and Mrs Cooper, Mrs P. Newton, Miss Bridgeman, Mr Guy Bridgeman, Miss A. Kettle (Napier), Mrs and Miss Macassey, Dr and Mrs Mackessar, and Dr and Mrs Cameron.  -Otago Witness, 1/5/1918.

SOCIAL GOSSIP

The engagement is announced of Miss Queenie Graham, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Graham, of Ngakaroa Station, Poverty Bay, and Lieutenant Guy Bridgeman, M.C., N.Z.F.A., third son of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Bridgeman, Anderson's Bay, Dunedin.  -The Free Lance, 18/8/1918.

ROLL OF HONOUR

The death is announced of Lieutenant Guy Bridgeman, M.C., third son of Mr F. O. Bridgeman, of Dunedin. The deceased soldier joined the Main Body as a trooper in the Otago Mounted Rifles, and went to Egypt. He first saw service against the Turks at the Suez Canal. He afterwards went to Gallipoli, where he was promoted to sergeant. After several months' service there he was badly wounded, being shot through the lungs by a sniper. He was invalided to Malta, and after his recovery he joined the New Zealand Field Artillery in France, and there won his commission on the field. He went through many of the big engagements — notably Passchendaele and Messines — and was awarded the Military Cross for brilliant work as an observation officer. He was again severely wounded — this time by a shell bursting on a German "pill-box," which he had entered to search. As a result, he returned invalided to New Zealand, and although not completely fit he joined up with a reinforcement draft. Unfortunately he was seized with influenza at the Featherston Camp, and succumbed to the illness on Thursday.  -Press, 18/11/1918.

Andersons Bay Cemetery.