'The German army blew up a cup of tea next to me'
Andrew Bruce, the 11th Earl of Elgin and and 15th Earl of Kincardine, is one of the few surviving witnesses to Germany's first air raid on the UK during World War Two - which became known as the Battle of the Forth.
At 15 years of age, he stood next to his father who fired his rifle at German planes from the lawn of their home, Broomhall House, in Dunfermline.
While at Eton College he trained with the officer training corps, and when he left school he became a sergeant with the Home Guard.
By 1944 he was a Scots Guard lieutenant, and two weeks after D-Day, on 22 July he landed at Juno beach, in charge of three tanks and 15 men.
During Operation Bluecoat, the British breakout from Normandy, a grenade attack badly injured Bruce's hand and one of his legs.
In 1946 he was invalided out of the Army with the honorary rank of lieutenant.
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