REMARKABLE CAREER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3794, 12 August 1936, Page 7

REMARKABLE CAREER

EXPLORED AMAZON VALLEY.

BRITISH OFFICER’S VARIED

ADVENTURES;

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Daniel Bryce, who had a remarkable career in France while commanding a tank battalion, has died in Paris at the age of 57. Son of a Devonshire Magistrate and educated at Harrow, he went to South America in 1903 and after many adventures in .exploring the Amazon Valley went to Johore. He was a rubber planter there for nine years and returned to England at the outbreak of war. He went to France with the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, and afterwards was transferred to the Ist Battalion the North Lancashire Regiment. Then he joined the Tank Corps and became a commander. It was characteristic of him during an advance to lead his tank into action by walking ahead of them. He was mentioned in dispatches five times for his bravery and gained not only the D.S.O. but two bars. After the war he settled in Paris, but was proceeded against for tax evasion in respect of a company he had formed. He was fined £200,000, but for several years he fought against the judgment and at last succeeded and was completely vindicated. In 1919 he married Vera, daughter of the late Sir David Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, but was divorced in 1933. Some months ago he remarried in Paris after an unsuccessful effort in the Paris courts by a relative to prove that on medical grounds he was unfit.