Lieut. Colonel Walter Alfred John O'Meara (1863- ) C.M.G., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E.
1863 Born eldest son of A. O'Meara of St. Marks, Simla
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
School of Military Engineering, Chatham
Staff College, Camberley.
Married Annie M. Graves
1885-6 Active service in Burma (employed on reconnaissance duties)
1887-9 reconstruction of Spithead Defences
1889-94 On loan to General Post Office on construction of first International Telephone Trunk line, London to Paris
1894-6 Table Bay Defences
1899-1902 On special service and on staff in South Africa (Director of Telegraphs in Kimberley during siege, Chief Intelligence Officer, Bloemfontein, Acting Mayor, Johannesburg, and Government Commissioner, Johannesburg and District)
1907-12 Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office
1912-3 Special Engineering Commissioner for Europe, under General Post Office
1915-18 General Staff (Home Defence) (mentioned in "London Gazette").
Became a Barrister-at-Law.
1922 Bt.-Lieut.-Col., C.M.G., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Royal Engineers