Bruce Evans Innes

Bruce Innes

RCAF   S/L   -   DFC

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INNES, F/L Bruce Evans (J16925) - Distinguished Flying Cross - No.402 Sqn.
Award effective 3 September 1945 as per London Gazette dated 14 September 1945 &
AFRO 1672/45 dated 2 November 1945.

Flight Lieutenant Innes has completed two tours of operational duty. He has attacked numerous ground targets and has destroyed three enemy aircraft and damaged others. He has also shown outstanding keenness and determination in engaging the enemy which have set a fine example to all who have flown with him.

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Born 26 January 1921 at Battleford, Saskatchewan.
Private and Lance Corporal [1937-40]
in Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers.
1938 - graduated from Battleford Collegiate Institute
1939/40 - attended the University of Saskatchewan.
Enlisted in Saskatoon, 1940
Called for active duty 16 October 1940.
No.1 Manning Depot, Toronto, 16 Oct. to 9 Nov. 1940
Assigned briefly to guard duty at Ottawa.
Trained at
No.1 ITS (graduated 7 February 1941),
No.3 EFTS London, Ont.(graduated 10 April 1941)
No.9 SFTS Summerside, PEI (graduated 15 July 1941)
Arrived in UK, 15 September 1941.
No 55 OTU - 7 Coctober 1941, Unsworth, England
Overseas continuously until October 1946,
18 November 1941 - 402 Squadron, Hurricane a/c
4 May 1941 - Spitfire Vb a/c
17 May 1942 - dogfight w/ 3 FW190's shot down breaking leg.
Rescued by airsea rescue from the English Channel
20 December 1942 - Rejoined 402 Squadron
9 February 1944 - Staff pilot in the UK
2 December 1944 - 1 July 1945 - 402 Squadron [Spit X1V]
1 July 1945 - 15 July 1945 - 412 Squadron
8 September 1945 - 28 February 1946 - CO 411 Squadron

Commissioned :
Pilot Officer 5 May 1942
Flying Officer 1943
Flight Lieutenant 5 May 1944
Squadron Leader 1 Sept. 1945

Repatriated to Canada, May 1946;
released 2 July 1946 & Returned to Battleford

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Combat claims as follows:

20 June 1943
29 Sept. 1943
25 Febr. 1945
31 March 1945   
26 April 1945
30 April 1945

3 May 1945

 one barge
1/2 FW.190
1/2 Me.262
one FW.190  
one He.115
one FW.190
1/8 FW.190
three Fi.156		 damaged;
probably destroyed
damaged
destroyed, Oldenburg;
destroyed OTW [at moorings, Pulnitz;
destroyed OTG   &
damaged On The Ground
damaged (shared with F/L Peck).		  

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--- Canadian Aces ---

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Thanks to Ross Innes for this information ! A quote from an email
"I used Bruce's flying log book for a lot of the information about Bruce,
family records and my book "Above Where Eagles Soar"
a biography of Bruce by yours truly published in 1995"

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On these pages I use info from the Air force Association of Canada's web site
in Hugh Halliday's excellent Honors & Awards section,
Newspaper articles via the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC)
as well as other sources both published and private