Bruce Digby Worsley

Second Lieutenant Bruce DigbyWorsley was a World War I British flying ace credited withaerial victories between June and September 1918.

Ernest Bruce DigbyWorsley was born onFebruary 1899 in Gloucester, England and died in 1980 in Hastings, England. At the time of his enlistment in 1914, he was a 15yearold schoolboy living in the parental home atArthur Street in Gloucester. He falsified his age to enlist in the local Territorial Force battalion, claiming that he wasyears of age. In 1916, DigbyWorsley was evacuated from France to the Red Cross Hospital in Gloucester with a severe case of trench foot, after serving in Flanders for only two months. DigbyWorsleys mother then attempted to have him excused from further duty at the front on grounds of age. By this time, however, DigbyWorsley had already been appointed as a drill instructor, and the Middlesex Regiment clearly felt that his services were needed to train recruits at home, which he did until his transfer to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers.

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