Walter Heywood Bryan

He served with distinction during World War I. Bryan was born in Taringa, Brisbane in 1891.

[1] After high school he enrolled in the newly formed University of Queensland in 1911 and graduated with a BSc in 1914.

[2] He spent a short time in the Queensland Geological Survey in 1914–15 mapping the Maryborough basin and the petrology of the Gympie Permian.

[3] He was awarded his MSc from the University of Queensland while he was overseas serving in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).

He served at Gallipoli, in Egypt and on the Western Front, with 1 Division Trench Mortar Batteries and Artillery.

He gave many public lectures in Brisbane on geological topics, including the origins of the earth,[7] coral reefs and prehistoric man.

[10] Bryan and Richards would have a productive working relationship, co-publishing a number of publications on the Silverwood-Lucky Valley area and on the Brisbane Tuff.

Bryan and his colleague, Owen A. Jones later argued for further stations to be added to the north of Queensland to assist with accurate weather forecasting of cyclone events, earthquakes and sea disturbances.

[6] The UQ Seismology Station that he started,[22] continues to this day at Mount Nebo.

It is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute of which his son Bob was a founding director.

This is an image of University of Queensland staff in 1927. W.H. Bryan is in the second row, fourth from the left. Used with the permission of Fryer Library, University of Queensland Photograph Collection, UQFL466, AL/P/66