Person
Wilton, Richard Gladstones (1892 - 1946)
- Born
- 30 October 1892
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 23 June 1946
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Richard Wilton, AMIEAust, was an engineer in the Engineering and Water Supply Department, South Australia from 1925, rising to be Engineer for Water Supply in 1943, and Deputy Engineer-in-chief when he died in 1946.
Details
Chronology
- 1912 - 1917
- Career position - Assistant engineer, Barmera, Irrigation Department, South Australia
- 1915 - 1917
- Military service - First World War. Captain, 10th and 50th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force [Seriously wounded in action]
- 1917 - 1925
- Career position - Draughtsman, Hydraulic Engineer's Office, Irrigation Department, South Australia [Assistant engineer, Cobdogla and Chaffey Works]
- 1920
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1925 - 1934
- Career position - Resident engineer, Central and South-East District, Engineering and Water Supply Department, South Australia
- 1934 - 1943
- Career position - Resident engineer, Central District, Engineering and Water Supply Department, South Australia
- 1941
- Publication - Book: "Elementary principles of pipe line flow"
- 1943 - 1945
- Career position - Engineer for Water Supply, Engineering and Water Supply Department, South Australia [succeeded the late C. G. F. Johnson; succeeded by J. R. Dridan]
- 1945 - 1946
- Career position - Deputy Engineer-in-chief, Engineering and Water Supply Department, South Australia [succeeded by J. R. Dridan]
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Sibling
Published resources
Books
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones, Elementary principles of pipe line flow (Adelaide, South Australia: Government Printer, 1941). Details
Edited Books
- Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C. ed., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. "Wilton, Richard Gladstone. AMIEAust (1892-1946)" p.200 (incl. portrait). Details
Journal Articles
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones, 'The development of the Adelaide water supply system', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (12) (1929), 429-438. Details
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones, 'Town water supply installation at Naracoorte', Commonwealth Engineer (1940), 83-90. Details
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones, 'The Kingscote and Bordertown water supplies', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 12 (1) (1940), 11-19. Details
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones, 'Use of garden sprinklers', Commonwealth Engineer (1943), 131-135. Details
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones; Farrent, T. A., 'The development of the Adelaide water supply system (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (5) (1930), 170-171. Details
- Wilton, Richard Gladstones; Farrent, T. A., 'The development of the Adelaide water supply system (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (8) (1930), 305. Details
Newspaper Articles
- 'Death of Mr. R. G. Wilton - was Engineer for Water Supply', The Advertiser (1946), 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35701156. Details
Resources
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Wilton Richard Gladstone', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=8846334. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. p.858. Details
Ken McInnes
Created: 18 December 2025