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Ewen Cameron Bruce
Major Ewen Cameron Bruce, (10 November 1890 – 16 April 1925) was a former British Army Officer who served with the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps ''(Tank Corps from July 1917)'' during the First World War from 1916-1918. He was awarded the Military Cross for his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in salvaging tanks under heavy shell fire at the Battle of Messines in July 1917 which resulted in him losing his left arm to a gunshot wound.〔(Military Cross citation for Bruce in the 1917 ''London Gazette'' )〕〔 After the Great War, Bruce went to Russia and volunteered to command a British tank mission assisting the White Army under Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel to fight the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Bruce was awarded the Distinguished Service Order〔(Distinguished Service Order citation for Bruce in the 1920 ''London Gazette'' )〕 for his bravery during the June 1919 Battle of Tsaritsyn for single-handedly storming and capturing the fortified city of Tsaritsyn, now called Volgograd, under heavy shell fire in a single tank; this led to the successful capture of over 40,000 prisoners.〔Kinvig, Clifford. "Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920". Hambledon Continuum: 2006, p. 225; ISBN 9781847250216.〕 The fall of Tsaritsyn is viewed ''"as one of the key battles of the Russian Civil War"'' which greatly helped the White Russian Cause.〔 Notable historian Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart comments that Bruce's tank action during this battle is to be seen as ''"one of the most remarkable feats in the whole history of the Tank Corps."''〔Liddell Hart, Basil. "The Tanks: The History Of The Royal Tank Regiment And Its Predecessors, Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps And Royal Tank Corps, 1914-1945. Vol I". Cassell: 1959, p. 211.〕
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