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BUNNING, WALTER RALSTON (1912-1977), architect, town planner and writer, was born on 19 May 1912 in South Brisbane, twin son of George Edward Bunning, an English-born pastoralist, and his wife Edwina Mary Huey, née Edkins, a Queenslander. Raised with five siblings at Braeside station, Walter went to the Slade School, Warwick. He studied art for a year at East Sydney Technical College, then worked in the offices of Carlyle Greenwell (Sibyl Morrison's husband) and Stephenson & Meldrum while attending Sydney Technical College at night. Bunning helped to produce the architecture students' news-sheet, won the Kemp medal on qualifying in 1933 and became an associate of the college in 1936. Awarded a travelling scholarship by the Board of Architects of New South Wales, in 1937-39 he studied town planning at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London, travelled in Europe, and was employed by architects in London, Dublin and New York.

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