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Sergeant William Irvin Bruce

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Military service

Service number: R/186736
Age: 20
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: November 14, 1923 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: August 19, 1942
Death: August 7, 1944 Malton

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. Sec. Lot 1973.
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Son of William Nichol and Cora E. Bruce of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Husband of Helen Dorothy Bruce and father of Heather Jean of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sgt Bruce was employed as a civilian training instructor under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at Dominion Skyways (Training) Limited at the time of his death.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 261 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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