Dominic Bruce, was a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man." He has been described as "the most ingenious escaper" of the Second World War. He made seventeen attempts at escaping from POW camps, including several attempts to escape from Colditz Castle, a castle that housed prisoners of war "deemed incorrigible".
Dominic Bruce
Dominic Bruce as a baby, with his elder brother, William.
Mary McClurry Bruce (Bruce's mother) called 'The Angel of Hebburn' for her charity work amongst young mothers, receives the British Empire Medal from the trade unionist Lord Lieutenant of Durham, Lord Lawson of Beamish, a former school friend
Dominic Bruce receives the Air Force Medal
Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly in County Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between Gateshead and Jarrow and opposite Wallsend and Walker.
Aerial view of the centre
Hebburn in 2011, with Westmorland Court and Durham Court flats visible on the skyline.
Hebburn metro station