Bruce Biddle

1888 - 1943  (55 years)

• Name	Bruce Biddle
  Birth	06 Jan 1888
  Gender	Male
  Death	05 May 1943
  Burial	Siloam Springs, Arkansas
  Person ID	I342223162382	Tripp Family Genealogical Website

  
  

  Mother	Anna Jane Frazer,   b. Franklinville, New York
  Family ID	F54704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emily Rudman Garda,   b. 3 Dec 1894, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA d. 14 Oct 1964, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F46315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Bruce Biddle attended Northwestern College, New York University, also took a P.G. at Columbia University. When he was a senior at John Brown University, Siloam Springs Arkansas, he volunteered for sevice with the Merchant Marine, in August 1944. Whle on his first voyage as radio operator, on the S.S.Lewis which was carrying ammunition in the Pacific, was struck by a Japanese plane on Januray 4, 1945 near Leyte Island. Eye witnesses say the ship sank in sixteen seconds, without a single survivor. He was a descendant of Robert Bruce on his paternal side.