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Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC & Bar, DL (22 January 1917 – 11 June 2006) was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War.
8 mag 2020 · In an excerpt from his book Previous Engagements, selected by Her Royal Highness to share on VE Day, Major Shand recalls his time serving in North Africa in 1942 which saw him lose two of his closest comrades during the Battle of El Alamein and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war.
20 dic 2021 · Sharing tales from the military service of her father, Major Bruce Shand, she said the simple matter of hearing a friendly voice over the airways could make an important difference to...
- Hannah Furness
- Royal Correspondent
11 giu 2006 · Major Bruce Shand, father of the Duchess of Cornwall, had a long and eventful life, winning two Military Crosses in World War II before becoming a respected wine merchant and huntsman. Major...
22 apr 2024 · Commissioned in 1937, The Queen’s late father, Major Bruce Shand, served with the 12th Lancers during World War II. He won a Military Cross during the withdrawal to Dunkirk in 1940 and later again in 1942 during the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa.
22 apr 2024 · Her father Major Bruce Shand served in the 12th Lancers - which is now part of the Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) - and won a Military Cross for gallantry during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War.
22 apr 2024 · Camilla, 76, will view a Second World War tunic that belonged to her father, Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again at...
