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Sir Michael Bruce, 11th Baronet
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Sir Michael Bruce, 11th Baronet

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British author
A.K.A.
Michael William Selby Bruce Michael Bruce
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
United States of America, USA
Age
63 years
Education
Abingdon School
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Biography

Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet (27 March 1894 – 2 May 1957) was an author and soldier.

Early life and education

The son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856–1912), of West Drayton, Middlesex, director of an art gallery and his wife Angelica Lady Bruce (died 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery. Michael Bruce entered Abingdon School from October 1907–1910.

Career

He then joined the British South Africa Police as a trooper (1913). After First World War service with the Royal Artillery at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Bruce became a traveller, largely in Africa and South America, and an author and newspaper columnist. During the Second World War he served in a barrage balloon unit, with 901 (County of London) squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, and was wounded again. Later in the war he was Senior Weapons Instructor for glider pilots at Bridgnorth.

Personal life

He was the elder brother of Nigel Bruce, the actor. He married Elizabeth Constance Plummer of Toronto in 1933 and after her death during World War II, married again in 1945. He died at Vancouver, British Columbia in 1957.

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