Walter Thorpe Olding
25 September 1888 — 30 April 1912
Walter Thorpe Olding (5‑42‑7)
Walter Thorpe Olding was born in Queensland on 25 September 1888. When fire broke out in a city building on 30 April 1912 he was one of a party of sailors from the HMAS Gayundah who came to assist. Walter was killed by falling masonry from the burning building. He was accorded a Naval funeral. The officers and men of the Gayundah erected a memorial over his grave.
Warehouse destroyed by fire in Edward Street, Brisbane, 1912, from *The Week, 3 May 1912. — National Library of Australia.*
The 'Gayundah' gunship moored in the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton - State Library of Queensland