Bruce Shand - Wikipedia
WEBBruce 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. He was the father of Queen Camilla. After the war he became a wine merchant.
The Queen visits The Royal Lancers, for her first time as Colonel-in ...
WEB5 days ago · 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. ... Major Shand was captured on 6th November 1942, during a battle in which the ...
Queen to pay tribute to her father Major Bruce Shand's service …
WEB5 days ago · Major Bruce Shand won two Military Crosses during fighting across Europe and North Africa during the Second World War. Victoria Ward, Deputy Royal Editor 22 April 2024...
Queen Camilla meets regiment - Sky News
WEB5 days ago · 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.
The Duchess of Cornwall reads extracts from her father’s military ...
WEBMay 8, 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.
Major Bruce Shand | | The Guardian
WEBJun 21, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand, who has died aged 89, was famous for keeping his cool: this earned him two military crosses in the second world war and, half a century later, the gratitude of the Prince of...
BBC NEWS | UK | Obituary: Bruce Shand
WEBJun 11, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand: War hero who was Camilla's 'rock'. Major Bruce Shand, father of the Duchess of Cornwall, had a long and eventful life, winning two Military Crosses in World War II before...
Major Bruce Shand - The Telegraph
WEBJun 12, 2006 · Major Bruce Shand, who has died aged 89, was a gallant soldier, a wine merchant, a master of foxhounds and a discreet member of the Royal Household; late in life, however, he found...
Who were Camilla Parker-Bowles' parents: Bruce Shand and
WEBFeb 20, 2021 · Bruce was born in London in January 1917; his mother was Edith Marguerite Harrington and his father, Philip Shand, was an architectural writer. His parents divorced when he was three and his father married another three times – Bruce was said to have had no contact with his father until he was 18.
Bruce Shand - Wikiwand
WEBJun 11, 2006 · 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. He was the father of Queen Camilla.
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