IMRIE, Bruce Berriff

Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Scots
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14604373
Born: 
Saturday, January 1, 1916
Died: 
2004
Age: 
88
Bruce Imrie 3 Commando
Lance Corporal Bruce Imrie, 4 Troop, was wounded by a shell fragment in his shoulder during operations at Weser, Germany, on 7 April 1945. He was later medically discharged.
He had been in the Royal Horse Artillery in India aged 14 to 21 before he came to the UK and joined the Police at age 21. In 1939 he was a Metropolitan Police Constable residing at the Police Section House, 21A Commercial Street, London. He volunteered for the Commandos re-joining HM Armed Forces on 19 May 1943.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/91.
War Diary List of Battle Casualties No. 3 Cdo April 1945.
Commando Association Lost Legion List 6.
The 1939 Register covering Stepney, London.
Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
His daughter Moira Noesgaard.
 

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