Robert Bruce, the son of Major the Hon. Robert Bruce, who was the brother of Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine, was born on 4 April 1915.
Educated at Eton, he qualified as a Civilian Pilot on 21 August 1937, afterwards working as a Civil Aviation Instructor.
He was commissioned into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 18 September 1939 for service during the Second War and was killed in a flying accident on 23 May 1941 whilst a Flying Instructor in an Airspeed Oxford, at No. 14 Service Flying Training School, Sibson, Cambridgeshire.
He is buried in his family’s Private Burial Ground, at Glenerney, Edinkillie, Scotland.
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