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Vice-Lieutenant of East Sussex. Exon and Adjutant of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. 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 .
Jun 13, 2006 · From Times Staff and Wire Reports. Maj. Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, died Sunday at home in Dorset, on England’s south coast, her spokesman said. The cause of death ...
Apr 22, 2024 · The Queen will make her first visit to the Royal Lancers since being named the regiment’s colonel-in-chief and will pay tribute to her late father’s service. Camilla, 76, will view a Second ...
Dec 20, 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 servicemen ...
- Hannah Furness
- Royal Correspondent
Jun 9, 2023 · Major Bruce Shand served with the 12th Lancers in World War Two. He won the Military Cross twice during his service, firstly in 1940 during the retreat to Dunkirk and secondly in 1942 at El Alamein.
Jun 11, 2006 · June 11, 2006 / 4:27 PM EDT / AP. Maj. Bruce Shand, the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, died at home Sunday, her spokesman said. Shand, 89, was surrounded by family when he died at home in ...
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May 8, 2020 · Major Shand returned to Britain after escaping capture in 1945 eventually retiring from the Army in 1947. In 2006, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Egypt. At Major Shand’s request, Her Royal Highness laid flowers on the graves of her father’s two crewmen, Sergeant Charles Francis and Corporal Edward Plant, who had been killed in 1942.
