Dominic Bruce, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce (7 June 1915 – 12 February 2000) was a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man." He has been described as "the most ingenious escaper" of World War II.
During 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. Famed for his time in Colditz, Bruce also escaped from Spangenberg Castle and the Warburg POW camp.
In Spangenberg Castle he escaped with the Swiss Red Cross Commission escape, it is also argued he co-innovated the wooden horse escape technique whilst serving time inside Spangenberg.
In Warburg he escaped dressed as a British orderly in a fake workers party.
Inside Colditz Castle, Bruce authored the Tea Chest Escape and also faced a firing squad for an attempted escape via a sewer tunnel.
Whilst held in solitude in Colditz, along with two other prisoners, Bruce became a key witness to the post war Musketoon, commando raid trial. For his exploits in WWII he was awarded the Military Cross and is the only known person to have received both the Military Cross and the Air Force Medal.
Bruce has also featured prominently in books, sound recordings, TV and film, which recorded many views and details of his participation in World War II. In his later years he received the OBE for his services to education.

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