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Son of Douglas and Florence Bruce (nee Waters) of Smithers, British Columbia. Brother of Vernon Randolph and Athlyn Eleonor Bruce.
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Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
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Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
11 September 1942 Canadian pilots in the Middle East, 417 Sqn. While P/0 D. E. Bruce (left) of Penticton, B. C. mops his brow, P/0 J. M. Gibson of Kingsville and Windsor, Ont., appropriately croons "Sand in my Shoes" as they sit on a sand embankment and swelter under the burning Middle East sun.
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Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
417 Squadron at RAF Charmy Down. F/O Bruce, middle row 4th from left
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F/O Douglas E. Bruce
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Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
Pilot Officer / Officier pilote D.E. Bruce
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Flight Lieutenant / Lieutenant d'aviation D.E. Bruce. North Africa / Afrique du nord - 1942
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F/O Douglas Bruce, 417 Squadron, Egypt 1943
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Flying Officer Douglas Earl Bruce
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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11 September 1942 Canadian pilots in the Middle East, 417 Sqn. While P/0 D. E. Bruce (left) of Penticton, B. C. mops his brow, P/0 J. M. Gibson of Kingsville and Windsor, Ont., appropriately croons "Sand in my Shoes" as they sit on a sand embankment and swelter under the burning Middle East sun.
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417 Squadron at RAF Charmy Down. F/O Bruce, middle row 4th from left
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F/O Douglas E. Bruce
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Pilot Officer / Officier pilote D.E. Bruce
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Flight Lieutenant / Lieutenant d'aviation D.E. Bruce. North Africa / Afrique du nord - 1942
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F/O Douglas Bruce, 417 Squadron, Egypt 1943
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 141 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ALAMEIN MEMORIAL Egypt
Alamein is a village which is bypassed by the main coast road approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the way to Mersa Matruh.
The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the old coast road, which is parallel to the former. The cemetery and the ALAMEIN MEMORIAL both lie beyond the ridge. Road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path which leads down through the memorial building and into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road.
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