Michael Bruce (author)
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Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet (27 March 1894 – 20 May 1957) was an author and adventurer.
The son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet, of West Drayton, Middlesex, director of an art gallery, Michael Bruce entered Abingdon School, then joined the British South African Police as a trooper (1913). After First World War service with the Royal Artillery at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Bruce became a traveller, largely in Africa and South America, and an author and newspaper columnist. Among his books are Songs from the Saddle (1916), Sails and Saddles (1929) and Tramp Royal (1954), which is largely autobiographical. During the Second World War he served in a barrage balloon unit, with 901 (County of London) squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment. He was the elder brother of Nigel Bruce, the actor. Michael Bruce died at Vancouver, British Columbia.
