Bruce Macdonald - Essex Scottish Regiment

Bruce Macdonald served as a militia officer with the Essex Scottish Regiment from 1929 to 1939, and enlisted for overseas service in September 1939. He served as Company Commander and Second-in-Command until May 1943. Prior to the Normandy invasion, Macdonald conducted a battle school for the training of all units of the Fourth Infantry Brigade. During the early fighting in Normandy, Macdonald served as Commanding Officer of the Essex Scottish with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

In August 1944 he served as the Canadian Member of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) Court of

Inquiry, a post held until the end of the war in Europe. From May 1945 to June 1946 Macdonald headed the Number One Canadian War Crimes Investigation Unit and served as Chief Prosecutor of War Criminals of the Canadian Armed Forces.

For his service in the Second World War, Macdonald was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE), the Croix de Guerre (France) and the Efficiency Decoration. After the War, Lieutenant-Colonel B.J.S. Macdonald was active in a number of Essex Scottish Regimental Associations, committees, reunions and memorials.

	Archives document: MS 43 II/3 Caricature of Bruce Macdonald in his Essex Scottish Regiment Uniform, drawn by Windsor Star editorial cartoonist Charlie Knight, (194-?)
	Archives document: PC/6223 Bruce Macdonald in the Essex Scottish Regiment dress uniform of the Second World War, (between 1939 and 1946.)
	Archives document: PC/6228 Bruce Macdonald in the Essex Scottish Regiment dress uniform of the Second World War, (between 1939 and 1946.)
	Archives document: PC/6267 Bruce Macdonald, J. H. Mothersill, A.S. Person and a fellow officer of the Essex Scottish Regiment, (between 1939 and 1946.)
	Archives document: PC/6601 Essex Scottish Regiment funeral, (193?)
	Archives document: PC/6267 Field Marshal Montgomery inspecting the Essex Scottish Regiment, 1944.
	Archives document: PC/6601 Bruce Macdonald and the Officers of the Essex Scottish Regiment, (1943 or 1944.)
	Archives document: PC/6298 Bruce Macdonald and other Essex Scottish Regiment members as pallbearers at a funeral, (194?)
	Archives document: PC/6302 Bruce Macdonald and Fred Tilston at an Essex Scottish Regiment reunion, June 15, 1985.