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Benjamin L Drury

Benjamin Lawrence Drury

Birth Name Benjamin Lawrence Drury 1a
Also Known As Ben 2a
Gender male
Age at Death 56 years, 9 months, 20 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 28 March 1899 Lambeth, London, England Not found in BMD records
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Education 1911   Scholar
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Marriage 24 December 1928 Southwark, London, England Southwark Register Office

Southwark Register Office by certificate.

Witnesses - Frank & Alice Exall Annie Golding

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Death 17 January 1956 Southwark, London, England aged 57 - Guys Hospital

Died on way to Guys Hospital from London Bridge - (from death certificate)

Funeral invitation states age as 54 (this is wrong) where as BMD registration states 59.(from-SP-Dec-2008) - BLD Marriage certificate gives him as 29 in Dec 1928, death certificate 59 in Jan 1956 all points to DOB being1898 ish. Funeral card is incorrect by a mile. My nan lied about age so much that she actually forgot in the end, when she died she was 4 years older than we thought. - Book 3 / E-mails / 17 / page 1a

Informant - W Golding - Brother in law - 141 Poland Hill House, Nelson Square, SE1

Apparently BLD did not die on London Bridge as mum thought, Larry (Henry William Drury) was working up the street. BLD was working in Cottons Cold Store in Tooley street stacking butter when he dropped. They laid him out on the table in there, although certificate says he died on route to hospital Larry said he was probably dead before he hit the floor.

The William Golding on BLD death certificate is my great uncle Bill Annies son and my nans 1/2 brother, therefore BLD's brother inlaw.
BLD was cremated my dad and I would often take flowers, he was in a private nook in the building they have there, my auntie (dads sister died age26) was a few nook's away. He has now been spread over the rose garden there but he should be in their book of rememberance, his wife Lydia is also there as Lydia Lacey but she has been recycled as well along with her brother John and her second husband Thomas. Awful isn't it as they were purchased originally they thought for life. - (from-SP-Jan-2009)

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Cause Of Death 1956 Southwark, London, England Heart attack

Heart attack whilst crossing London Bridge on his way home from work. His brother Henry died on the same day in 1948 – see below – eerie.

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Cremation 1956 Streatham, London, England Streatham Park Crematorium

Streatham Crematorium, Rowan Rd, London SW16

BLD (Benjamin Lawrence Drury) was cremated (Streatham Crematorium)
my dad and I would often take flowers,
he was in a private nook in the building they have there,
my auntie (dads sister died age26) was a few nook's away.
He has now been spread over the rose garden there
but he should be in their book of remembrance,
his wife Lydia is also there as Lydia Lacey
but she has been recycled as well along with her brother John
and her second husband Thomas.
Awful isn't it as they were purchased originally they thought for life.

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Medical Information World War One   Medical Information of Benjamin Lawrence Drury

From Army record - Complexion Fair -- Eyes Gray -- Hair Light brown
Height 5 foot 4.5 inches -- Weight 105 lbs -- Chest 33 inches

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  Occupation  
 
Military Service 13 August 1914 Camberwell, London, England Royal Fusiliers 9 th Battalion

13.08.1914 - Benjamin Drury No.2551 Royal Fusiliers 9 th Battalion. Signed up for duration, at Camberwell stating age as 19.5-months. Medical 13.08.1915. -
03.01.1915 - Training at Aldershot. Punishment - 03.03.1915 Laughing on parade 7 days.
17.03.1915 - Dirty knife 5 days.
21.04.1915 - Dirty knife 3 days.
Character - Very good.
28.03.1915 to 03.04.1915 - 7 days in hospital. Can not read why.
31.05.1915 - France
27.08.1915 to 06.10.1915 France - In the field attached to 70 Coy RE
29.09.1915 - By this time his mum notified the army that he was under 17 years old and wanted him brought back to serve only in England. - Army asked for his birth cert to prove age. Mum said she could not afford it.Army said Benjamin could pay, to which he said that he would if he was not in hospital.
20.10.1915 - Wounded in action. Shrapnel in Head.
21.10.1915 - general hospital in France.
01.11.1915 - Army agrees he is only 16.5 years old and inform C in C France he is under 17.
02.11.1915 - Mum informed Benjamin is wounded.
05.11.1915 - Rejoined his unit.
19.11.1915 - Transferred to England
19.11.1915 - Sent to Etaples Station for 6.10 train to Bouloge, them 10 pm boat to Folkestone and then to report to Hounslow. arrived 22.12.1915.
02.12.1915 - Discharge at Hounslow as under age. Having served 1 year 112 days.
05.07.1920 - Still applying for 1914-1915 Star. Being ignored by Army. Not known if he got it. (update) He did receive it, see medal card

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Occupation 1928   Ship Crane Driver ?
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Occupation     Dock Labourer, Stevedore

Mum [Ethel Cutting] also said that BLD worked not far from Lower Thames Street in the large docks she can't remember if it was Tilbury or St Catherines. - (from Sandra Palmer nee Barton)

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Occupation 1956   Dock Labourer, Cottons Cold Store in Tooley street stacking butter. (from Sandra Palmer) - Book 3 / E-mails / 17 / page 5a
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  Addresses  
 
Residence 1899 Lambeth, London, England Born
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Residence 1901 Lambeth, London, England 13 Doon Street

5 family´s - 11 people in house

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Residence 1911 Lambeth, London, England 26 Wasewell Terrace

9 Family members in 2 Rooms

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Residence 19?? Blackfriars, London, England 14 Gun Street Buildings, Bayfield Street
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Residence 1915 Southwark, London, England 4 Lower Grotto Place, Southwark Bridge Place
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Residence 1920 Blackfriars, London, England 225 Scovell Road (Queens buildings?)
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Residence 1928 Southwark, London, England 22 Sewell Road
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Residence between 1928 and 1929 Southwark, London, England 225 Queens Buildings, Scovell Road

Living with parents.

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Residence from 1938 to 1939 City of London, England 56 Lower Thames Street [EC3]

Next to the tower of London. My nan worked in the café downstairs, Had three sons:(from Sandra Palmer nee Barton)

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Residence between 1940 and 1948 Lambeth, London, England 74 Alverstone House, Kennington Park Road

1948, Ethel on voters List at house

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Residence from 1950 to 1956 Stockwell, London, England 16 Burgoyne Road

1950, Ethel on voters List at house
1952, sons Benjamin and Alfred on voters list at house
1953, sons Benjamin, Alfred and Henry on voters list at house
1954 to 1956, sons Benjamin, and Henry on voters list at house

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Residence 1956 Southwark, London, England Died
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Families

Married Wife Lydia Louisa Cutting
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage (Primary) 24 December 1928 Southwark, London, England Southwark Register Office

Southwark Register Office by certificate.

Witnesses - Frank & Alice Exall Annie Golding

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  Children
  1. Alfred E Drury

Narrative

Whilst convalescing in Deal, I have no idea from what, although mum speaks of an accident when he fell into the hold on one of the ships, he rescued a man from drowning at sea Aug 1937 and was given an award by the Royal Humane Society Oct 1937. It was reported in the evening standard. - (from Sandra Palmer nee Barton)

Narrative

Benjamin L Drury was a strong labour and union man always writing to MP’s and the prime minister, my mum says he came home every night, washed, changed and then sat at the kitchen table and wrote letters all evening. My uncle has many with quite famous signatures. I have a few from Whitehall. He also wrote to various union publications and was a fighter for workers rights. - (from Sandra Palmer nee Barton) - Book 3 / E-mails / 17 / page 1

I have a copy of a union issue penny mag for dockers called The Docks Today No7 Aug 1939 which contains a letter from BLD and refers to an article he penned in a previous issue on The Workmans Compensation Act. It was published by the dockers and portworkers league against fascism at 19 Church Lane E1, I have been unable to track anything on it. In his article he mentions coming home from WW1 in 1919 and starting work at the docks. I think he may have belonged to the National Society of operative Printers and Assistants at Caxton House in 1939, I have a letter written to him from the then General Secretary George A Isaacs. - (from Sandra Palmer nee Barton) - Book 3 / E-mails / 17 / page 4

Narrative

HEART PROBLEMS IN FAMILY MANY MIDDLE AGE DEATHS 18 BROTHERS & SISTERS CHARLIE, TEDDY, BOBBY, WILLIAM, KITT, HARRY, HENRY JAMES DIED 17/01/1948,ALICE - FRED & FRANK SADLER ALSO SOME LYLES .(from Sandra Palmer nee Barton) - Book 3 / E-mails / 17 / page 1

Narrative

Queens buildings were situated on Collinson Street & Scovell Road in Southwark. Both roads running between Borough Road & Southwark Bridge Road on the site of the Old King Bench Prison ........................Today (2009) both roads are no more than entrance roads to a newer housing estate, Collinson not even having a road sign............You can get an idea of what the estate was like as Queens Buildings was much like the surviving Peabody estates in the area. See James T Drury for photos of Queens Buildings etc. - (from Les Treneman)

Family Map

Family Map

Source References

  1. Marriage Registration - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 24 December 1928
      • Page: 1928-Southwark-4q-Vol.1d-page.214
      • Confidence: Very High
  2. E-mails from Sandra Palmer nee Barton
      • Date: 2010
      • Page: From Her Family tree at www.genesreunited.co.uk
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 2009
      • Page: E-mails from Sandra Palmer nee Barton, Family Tree on genesreunited.co.uk
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 18 January 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 5a
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 10 January 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 4
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 11 January 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 4a
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 28 November 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 10
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 29 November 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 10a
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 2009
      • Page: Book 6 / E-mails / 17 / page 12a
      • Confidence: Very High
  3. British Army - WWI - Pension Records 1914-1920
      • Date: World War One
      • Page: Book 2 / WW1 / page 10 to 26a - DOB on page 15 - Benjamin Lawrence Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Source Reference Note:

        Army number 2551

      • Date: 13 August 1914
      • Page: Benjamin Drury No.2551 - Home computer - ~/.gramps/Photos//Army record-page.a6
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 13 August 1914
      • Page: Benjamin Drury No.2551 - Home computer - ~/.gramps/Photos//Army record
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: World War One
      • Page: Book 2 / WW1 / page 10 to 26a - Benjamin Lawrence Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Source Reference Note:

        Army number 2551

      • Date: 13 August 1914
      • Page: Benjamin Drury No.2551 - Home computer - ~/.gramps/Photos//Army record-page.a15
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 13 August 1914
      • Page: Benjamin Drury No.2551 - Home computer - ~/.gramps/Photos//Army record-page.a4
      • Confidence: Very High
  4. 1901 census - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 1 April 1901
      • Page: RG13; Piece: 403; Folio: 77; Page: 37.
      • Confidence: Very High
  5. 1911 census - Find my Past
      • Date: 3 April 1911
      • Page: RG14PN1959 RG78PN69 RD25 SD1 ED17 SN375
      • Confidence: Very High
  6. Certificate - Marriage
      • Date: 24 December 1928
      • Page: Book 1 / Marriage / page 4a - Benjamin L Drury - Lydia L Cutting
      • Confidence: Very High
  7. Death Registration - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 17 January 1956
      • Page: 1956-Southwark-1q-Vol.5d-page.667
      • Confidence: Very High
  8. Certificate - Death
      • Date: 17 January 1956
      • Page: Book 1 / Death / page 2a - Benjamin L Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
  9. Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.
      • Date: 1929
      • Page: London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965, Ada E Sadler nee Hunt
      • Confidence: Very High
  10. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
      • Date: between 1938 and 1939
      • Page: Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: between 1945 and 1948
      • Page: Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: between 1950 and 1956
      • Page: Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.
      • Confidence: Very High