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Description: | Photocopy of an album of newspapers cuttings relating to the exploits of Midshipman G L Drewry RNR at V Beach, Cape Helles on the opening day of the Gallipoli campaign (25 April 1915) when he was serving as one of the officers on board the SS RIVER CLYDE for which he was subsequently awarded the VC, giving details of the landing of the 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (86th Brigade, 29th Division) as well as the involvement of the four other members of the Royal Navy who were also awarded the VC. The album is believed to have been compiled by Drewry's mother in 1915; the original is held at the Merchant Taylor's School which he attended before the war.
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Catalogue date 1997-10-30 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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