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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 517

(x) Eight: Captain (Q.M.) G. J. Bruce, Royal Signals

India General Service 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (2323223 Sgln. G. J. Bruce, R. Signals); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (C.Q.M.S. G. J. Bruce, R. Sigs.), mounted as worn, together with a quantity of related buttons, 'pips' and Royal Signals badges, and a large bronze commemorative medallion for XXX Corps 'Alamein-Cuxhaven' 1942-45, initials officially corrected on the last, very fine or better (Lot)

George John Bruce enlisted in the Royal Signals at Aberdeen in May 1933 and served out in Iraq and in India in the period December 1934 to April 1943, including active service on the North-West Frontier in 1st Indian Divisional Signals (Medal & 2 clasps). He subsequently served in the Middle East from August 1943 until February 1944 and in North-West Europe from October 1944 until November 1949, latterly as Signalman (Operator) in the British Army on the Rhine.

Having then gained advancement to Warrant Officer Class I - and been awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal and Coronation Medal in 1953 (the official roll, refers) - he was appointed to a commission as a Lieutenant (Q.M.) in November 1956. Bruce was finally placed on the Retired List as a Captain (Q.M.) in November 1963; sold with copied research, including pages from his Army Certificate of Discharge and medal roll verification.


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£240