Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce Sutcliffe
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment

From official information we have received your husband was killed in action against the enemy. You may be assured that any additional information received will be communicated to you without delay.

The Minister of National Defence and the members of the Army Council have asked me to express to you and your family their sincere sympathy in your bereavement.

(Gen. Letson to Nell Sutcliffe, 2 Aug 1943)

Born in Peterborough, Ontario on 27 October 1904, Bruce Albert Sutcliffe was a Toronto postal clerk and a sixteen-year member of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. On the promotion of Lieutenant-Colonel H.D. Graham to brigadier in September 1942, command of the regiment passed to Sutcliffe. Ten months later, on 10 July 1943, he landed with the regiment in Sicily as part of Operation Husky. Within ten days Sutcliffe was dead.

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