Colonel Walter Howard Tunbridge CB, CMG, CBE (2 November 1856 – 11 October 1943) was an Australian architect and soldier. He was born in Dover, Kent, to bricklayer John Nicholas Tunbridge and Anne, née Denne. Educated at Eythorne, he migrated to Australia in 1884 and established himself as an architect in Townsville, where he would eventually establish the civil engineering, architecture and surveying firm Tunbridge & Tunbridge. In February 1889 he was commissioned in the Mounted Infantry of the Queensland Land Forces, and in December was promoted lieutenant. He and his unit were sent to keep order at the 1891 shearers' strike, and in June 1892 Tunbridge was promoted captain. In November 1898 he was promoted major and transferred to the Queensland Artillery Garrison Battery, serving in Sou