Bruce White

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Brigadier Sir Bruce Gordon White, KBE, FCGI, FICE, FIEE (1885-1983) was one of the leading British consulting engineers of his generation. He was senior partner of Sir Bruce White, Woolfe Barry and Partners (now Beckett Rankine Partnership).

Born on 5 February 1885, he saw military service in Europe during World War I and was appointed an MBE in 1919.

During World War II he returned to military service with the rank of brigadier. He held the posts of Director of Ports and IWT at the War Office and Deputy Director, Department of Transportation Tn(5). He was part of the team involved in planning and designing of the ’’artificial’’ Mulberry harbours, having been responsible for the development of the four legged floating pontoons and the floating roadways that became the Spud pier heads and the Whale piers of these two harbours. These were used to supply allied forces iun France after the D-day landings in Normandy. In this capacity he was chairman of the Harbours committee, which was principally made up of civilian consultant civil engineers who undertook the design of Mulberry.

He was appointed a CBE in 1943 and a KBE in 1944. After the war his company was responsible for the design of the Chiswick flyover. White worked into his nineties.

He died on 29 September 1983.

[edit] Publications

The artificial invasion harbours called Mulberry, a personal story by Sir Bruce White KBE, 1980. Published privately and downloadable from http://www.brponline.co.uk/brpfs_downloads.html