Sedgley, Walter John Morgan
HistoryBorn on 16 March 1888 at Gawler, Walter Mongan Sedgley’s family lived at Waranda Wells, east of Ceduna, on the west coast of South Australia. He was married to Olive Victoria Sedgley. He died on 16 April 1971. In 1906 he entered the works and Buildings Department as a cadet and was subsequently appointed as draughtsman in that department. He studied at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries. In October 1913 he resigned to accept an appointment with the Defence Department. During World War One, in June 1917 he embarked with the 25th Battalion, 20th Regiment as a Regimental Sergeant Major (Warrant Officer Class II). While he was overseas he ‘spent two months on Town Planning sites with Paignton Council, Devon, England and visited Paris, Brussels, Cologne, London, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Edinburgh, Salisbury etc, etc whilst on leave’(SAIA Roll Book) returning to Australia in December 1919. In March 1920 Sedgley took over the position of Draughtsman and Assistant Building Surveyor in the office of the City Engineer, Adelaide. During this period he worked on buildings including the Golf House, North Adelaide (1922), adding twenty-three shops to City Arcade, Adelaide in 1923 and the reinstatement of the arcade after fire damage in 1924, and alterations and additions to Eagle Chambers, Pirie Street, Adelaide (1924). Sedgley was admitted as an Associate of the Queensland Institute of Architects in April 1917. He was admitted as a Fellow of the South Australian Institute of Architects in 1927. Sedgely was nominated as President of the South Australian Institute of Architects and served in this role from 1948 to 1950.
Dates:1888 - 1971