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BRUCE, Neil Stewart
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 506 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wick, Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Narrandera WW1 War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 506, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 506, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 506, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 506 awm_unit: 20 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-09-20 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
20th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 29 and the son of James and Jean Bruce, of 49, Willington St., Wick, Scotland. He is one of four Australian casualties of the Great War remembered on the Wick War Memorial.
Wick (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ùige, Scots: Week]) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay.
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