Career
Bridge joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at the Royal Naval College Osborne in 1907. He served in World War I as a lieutenant in the battleship HMS Marlborough in the Grand Fleet from 1916, as navigator in the sloop HMS Lupin from 1917 and then as navigator in the cruiser HMS Royalist. He continued his war service as Commodore commanding Northern Naval Air Stations from 1944.
He became Flag Officer (Air) for the East Indies Station in 1945, Flag Officer (Air) for the British Pacific Fleet and East Indies Fleet in 1946 and Senior Naval Representative for British element of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in Australia in 1947.
He went on to be Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1948. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 Birthday Honours and retired in 1951.
