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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.
Occupation: mountaineer and soldier. Area of activity: Military; Sports and Leisure Pursuits. Author: Ioan Bowen Rees. Born 7 April 1866 in London, youngest son of H.A. Bruce, 1st Lord Aberdare and his second wife, Norah.
Learn about the life and achievements of Charles Granville Bruce, a British mountaineer and army officer who led the first Olympic alpinism expedition to Mount Everest in 1922. Find out his biography, medals, family relations and more on Olympedia.
Joining the Indian Army in 1888, Bruce put his great strength and speed to good use, quickly taking up the local sports of wrestling and climbing. He soon joined the 5thGoorkha Regiment and took a profound interest in the lives and welfare of his Gurkha soldiers, becoming fluent in Nepali.
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. General Bruce had a great love for the mountains which began as a boy in his own Welsh hills.
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.
OBITUARY. BRIGADIER-GENERAL THE HON. CHARLES GRANVILLE BRUCE, M.V.O., C.B. 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.
