Bruce Arthur Waters

A Lance Corporal with the 2nd Battalion, Bruce died on 26th of May 1940 aged 27. 

Bruce was born at Lowestoft in 1913, a son of William Arthur and Eliza Mary Waters. In 1921 his family lived at 7 Lorne Road, and this was still their home in 1939. 

In May 1940 Bruce’s battalion were involved in the retreat to Dunkirk. It is not possible to say exactly what happened to Bruce. Official casualty list 242, dated 27 June 1940, shows Bruce as one of dozens of men from his battalion who were missing on ‘date not recorded’: some of thee men were killed in the massacre at Le Paradis. 

Casualty list 304, dated 10 September 1940, states that Bruce was ‘wounded and missing – date not recorded’ and casualty list 844, dated 8 June 1942, states that he was ‘presumed to have been killed in action at some point between 26 May and 2 June 1940’.