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1. www.express.co.uk › news › royalQueen Camilla shares special video message to mark Armed ...

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   Jun 28, 2024 · Queen Camilla has said she is a "proud daughter of an Army Officer" as she hailed servicemen and women in a video message marking Armed Forces Day. Queen Camilla, whose father Major Bruce Shand ...

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   Dec 20, 2021 · Major Shand was an officer in the British Army, winning two Military Crosses in the Second World War. On Nov 6, 1942, while in Egypt, his vehicle was destroyed, his two crewmen killed, and...

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4. www.royal.uk › clarencehouse › duchess-cornwallThe Duchess of Cornwall reads extracts from her father’s ...

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   May 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.

5. www.telegraph.co.uk › royal-family › 2024/04/22Queen to pay tribute to her father Major Bruce Shand's ...

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Camilla, 76, will view a Second World War tunic that belonged to her father, Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again...

6. royalcentral.co.uk › uk › camillaQueen Camilla makes a poignant tribute to her father as she ...

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   Jun 9, 2023 · Queen Camilla has taken on a new military role and revealed that it’s one her father, Major Bruce Shand, always hoped would come her way.

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   Who was Major Bruce Shand?

   • Her Royal Highness has recorded excerpts from her father’s own accounts of his time serving with the 12th Royal Lancers during the Second World War, as the nation comes together and reflects on VE Day. Major Bruce Shand M.C. was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1937, earning two Military Crosses and serving in the Army for a decade.

   The Duchess of Cornwall reads extracts from her father’s military

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   Who was Major Shand?

   • Major Shand was an officer in the British Army, winning two Military Crosses in the Second World War. On Nov 6, 1942, while in Egypt, his vehicle was destroyed, his two crewmen killed, and himself captured as a prisoner of war to be held in Oflag IX A in Spangenberg Castle.

   Duchess of Cornwall reveals how her father cheered fellow Forces

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   Who was Bruce Middleton Hope Shand?

   • 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 . After the war he became a wine merchant.

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   What happened to Major Shand?

   • 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.

   The Duchess of Cornwall reads extracts from her father’s military

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8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-york-northQueen Camilla visits Catterick Garrison for Lancers medal ...

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Queen Camilla presented five Buchan Medals to Royal Lancers at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire on Monday. There was an homage to her late father, Maj Bruce Shand, who served with the...