Edward Alexander ("Ned") BRIDGER
Edward known as Ned, was a very good polo player and was involved in the first games to be played in Argentina. His wife took their children to England and divorced him reverting, by deed poll, to her maiden name, Reynes. Ned remarried and farmed in Argentina.
Robert Daniel was interested in medicine, and studied at Guy's Hospital, became a doctor and was very popular with his patients, probably because he was very kind and easy-going about collecting fees. He never returned to South America. Robert volunteered and became a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. in the First World War.
H.M. Submarine Vandal, formerly H.M. Submarine P.64
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Country: United Kingdom The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common overlooking the promenade, and is accessible at all times. A copy of the Memorial Register is kept at the Civic Offices in Guildhall Square and may be consulted there.
Historical Information: After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. The memorials were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole. After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval dead without graves of that war, but since the three sites were dissimilar, a different architectural treatment was required for each. The architect for the Second World War extension at Portsmouth was Sir Edward Maufe (who also designed the Air Forces memorial at Runnymede) and the additional sculpture was by Charles Wheeler, William McMillan, and Esmond Burton. Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates 9,667 sailors of the First World War and 14,918 of the Second World War
John Stirling
Lieutenant, H.M. Submarine Vandal (formerly P. 64)., Royal Navy. Died on Wednesday 24th February 1943. Age 26. Son of Dr. Robert Daniel Bridger and Dorothy Noel Aylwin Bridger, of Biggleswade. Commemorated on PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Panel 72, Column 3.
HMS Vandal (Lt. John Stirling Bridger, RN) was wrecked off Kilbrennan Sound, Lochranza, Clyde on 24 February 1943 while working up, cause unknown. On 22 February 1943 she left the depot ship Forth, on Holy Loch, to carry out a three-day exercise in the Clyde, which was to include a deep dive on the 24th. During the exercise the submarine was under no obligation to communicate with her base and no alarm was felt when she did not do so.
On 24 February 1943 Vandal was observed leaving her anchorage just north of the Isle of Arran. This was the last seen of her. She was rediscovered December 1994. War Grave 1995. More on the ships loss on this website (offsite link).Commanding Officer:
Lt. John Stirling Bridger, RN
< 20 February 1943 - 24 February 1943+
Alexander George Alfred BRIDGER
Became a businessman in Buenos Aires buying and selling seed. He tried to volunteer for the first world war but was rejected through poor eye-sight in one eye which had been damaged during a rugby match. His business fluctuated and when he was taken ill at the age of 57, he struggled to keep his business going from his bed.
DEATH: Volunteered for the first world war
He served with 242 Sq & 164 Sq before he was killed in a flying accident on 23/8/42 at Skeabrae in Spitfire P9563.
In Memory of
Pilot Officer DAVID BRUCE BRIDGER118156, 164 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died age 21
on 23 August 1942
Son of Alexander George and Adeline Bruce Bridger, of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Remembered with honour
SANDWICK CEMETERY, OrkneyCommemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
George Herbert ("Bert") AUSTIN
George.H.Austin bought an estancia along with his brother in law Harold Bridger in the province of Cordoba called Las Cortaderas which is still in the family today.
DEATH: Also shown as Died 25 Aug 1937
Aminta Hannah ("Beta") BRIDGER
DEATH: Also shown as Died 1947
Cemetery Details
Cemetery: EDINBURGH (CORSTORPHINE HILL) CEMETERY
Country: United Kingdom
Locality: unspecified
Historical Information: During the two world wars, the United Kingdom became an island fortress used for training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service, or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards. Second World War military hospitals were in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Bangour. The city was also Scottish Command Headquarters. Edinburgh (Corstophine Hill) Cemetery contains 35 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, mostly found in plots in the south-east corner. In Section B there is a separate plot for Polish service burials - one of the many Polish camps in Scotland was near Edinburgh - which contains 165 graves. There are also two war graves of other nationalities and 39 post war service burials within the cemetery.