Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,665 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Walter Alfred John O'Meara

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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

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