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Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 – 12 July 1939) was a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924. In recognition of the former he was awarded a special prize at the conclusion of the first ever Winter Olympics.
Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce. 5TH Gurkha Rifles – Mountaineer and Army Officer. Charles Bruce, born in Aberdare in 1866 to a wealthy coal-mining family, developed a taste for extreme sports early in his life, boxing, fencing and running down poachers on his father’s land.
Brigadier-general Charles Granville Bruce was the leader of the first of three mountaineering expeditions to be awarded an Olympic medal, following his team’s attack on the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest in 1922.
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Apr 28, 2022 · Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 at London – 12 July 1939 at London) was a Himalayan veteran and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924. Background and early life.
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1894. marriage Finetta Madeline Campbell Source:7736985 1894. hospitalisation Severely wounded at Gallipoli Hospital/Institution Source:567819. service British Army Colonel 1/6th Gurkha Rifles Indian Army Source:567819. service Indian Army Brigadier General 1/6 Ghurkha Rifles 1 Battalion Source:567819.
Charles Bruce was born in 1866, the third and youngest son of the first Lord. Aberdare, who was for five years in the 'eighties President of our Society. From 1889 onwards he spent most of his military life at Abbottabad with the 5th Gurkha Rifles.
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Publication Year: 1940. CHARLES GRANVILLE BRUCE. 1866–1939. The death in London last July at the age of seventy-three of Brigadier-General The Hon. C. G. Bruce takes away another of the outstanding figures of our day in the alpine world.
