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November 2011

Thomas Drury

Birth Name Thomas Drury 1a
Gender male
Age at Death 19 years, 26 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth September 1899 St Saviour, Southwark, London, England  
1a
Baptism 3 September 1899 Southwark, London, England Christ Church
2a 3a
Education 1911   Scholar
4a
Death 27 September 1918 France aged 19
5a 6a 5b
Burial 1918 France VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

In Memory of
             Private THOMAS DRURY
      G/57783, 2nd Bn., Middlesex Regiment
                  who died age 19
              on 27 September 1918
Son of Harriet L. Drury, of 169J, Queen's Buildings,
  Scovell Rd., Borough Rd., London, and the late
                  George F. Drury.
            Remembered with honour
           VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

5c
Military Service World War One   Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 2nd Battalion

Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 2nd Battalion.
PRIVATE - G/57783 - Died 27/09/1918 Killed in action
Theatre of War France & Flanders
(from War Grave)

No army record found - 20.11.2008
The Middlesex Regiment
Battle Dates
1918
The Second Battle of the Somme 1918 and associated actions 21 March - 4 July 1918
The Battles of the Lys 9 April - 29 April 1918
The Battle of the Aisne 1918 27 May - 6 June 1918
The Battles of the Marne 1918 20 July - 2 August 1918
The Battle of Amiens and associated actions 8 August - 17 August 1918
The Second Battles of the Somme 1918 21 August - 3 September 1918
The Advance in Flanders 18 August - 6 September 1918
The Second Battles of Arras 1918 26 August - 3 September 1918
The Battles of the Hindenburg Line and associated actions 12 September - 12 October 1918
The Final Advance in Flanders 28 September - 11 November 1918
The Final Advance in Artois 2 October - 11 November 1918
The Final Advance in Picardy 17 October - 11 November 1918

It was not a British government that sent its representatives to the enemy to ask for an Armistice.
It was not the Germans who moved to occupy the country of their defeated enemy.
The defeat of the main enemy on the main fighting front had been led by the British armies.
from The Long, Long Trail Web Site

5d 6a 7a
  Addresses  
 
Residence 1899 St Saviour, Southwark, London, England Born
1a
Residence 1899 Southwark, London, England 43 Hatfield Street
2a 3a
Residence 1901 Southwark, London, England 43 Hatfield Street

3 family´s + 1 boarder = 16 in 6 rooms

8a
Residence 1911 Lambeth, London, England 54 Broadwall, Stamfold Street

8 Family members living in 2 rooms including kitchen

4a
Residence 1918 Southwark, London, England Died - 169 J Queen´s Buildings, Scovell Road
5a

Narrative

Thomas Drury use to go out with Florence M Fisher and it is said that when he did not return from WW1, she married his brother Benjamin. - (from Irene Treneman)

Thomas was said to be such a good singer that the neighbours use to shout over the balconies for him to sing. - (from Irene Treneman nee Drury 2009)

Narrative

After all the years of Harriet maintaining that Thomas was alive and that she had not been told he had been killed it appears she was in denial about his death. (On the other hand having lost her last 3 baby's and her husband she may have not been feeling very good herself.!)
She would have been informed of his death and been sent his medals as well as the kings scroll and may-be a pension( I must look into weather or not a pension was paid for sons killed?)
It looks like he joined up as soon as he was 17. - (from Irene Treneman nee Drury 2008) + (from James T Drury 2008) -----

Fred Tite got Harriet a pension for Thomas when Frederick married her. - (from Albert Wilcox 2009) Better late than never.

Narrative

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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. Birth Registration - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 3rd quarter 1899
      • Page: 1899-St saviour-3q-Vol.1d-page.7
      • Confidence: Very High
  2. Baptism Records - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 3 September 1899
      • Page: London Metropolitan Archives, Christ Church, Southwark, Register of baptisms, P92/CTC, Item 016
      • Confidence: Very High
  3. Certificate - Baptism
      • Date: 3 September 1899
      • Page: Book 1 / Baptism / page 15a - Thomas Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
  4. 1911 census - Find my Past
      • Date: 3 April 1911
      • Page: RG14PN1943 RG78PN69 RD25 SD1 ED1 SN50
      • Confidence: Very High
  5. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
      • Date: 27 September 1918
      • Page: Service No: G/57783 - Middlesex Regiment - 2nd Bn
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 27 September 1918
      • Page: Book 3 / Documents / page.47a - Thomas Drury - Death
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Source Reference Note:

        from Military Genealogy.com

      • Date: 1918
      • Page: Remembered with honour VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL - France
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Date: 1918
      • Page: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
      • Confidence: Very High
  6. Certificate - Death
      • Date: 27 September 1918
      • Page: Book 1 / Death / page 8a - Thomas Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
  7. British Army - WWI - Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
      • Date: World War One
      • Page: Book 2 / WW1 / page A to F - Thomas Drury
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Source Reference Note:

        Army number G57783

  8. 1901 census - Ancestry.co.uk
      • Date: 1 April 1901
      • Page: RG13; Piece: 359; Folio: 43; Page: 19
      • Confidence: Very High