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Description: | Photocopies of 4 very interesting ms letters written to his father and describing the landing of troops from the SS RIVER CLYDE at Cape Helles, Gallipoli on 25 - 26 April 1915 (in which he and four others serving in the ship won the Victoria Cross) and his subsequent service in motor lighters during the Suvla Bay landings, 6 - 9 August 1915; together with a photocopy of a related ts letter (2pp) from Surgeon R B Kelly RN, who won the DSO in the RIVER CLYDE landing, and two national newspapers containing references to Drewry and his gallantry.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-02-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Navy SS River Clyde | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Drewry, G L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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