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Description: | The collection includes portrait photographs of George Drewry in civilian clothes, and as a Midshipman and Sub Lieutenant. There are also images of Drewry and other Royal Navy officers on board ship and off-duty on Imbros. Relating to Gallipoli, where Drewry won his VC during the landings on 'V' Beach, are a photograph of the RIVER CLYDE taken from the beach and a return view looking from the ship to the shore. There is also a photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Doughty-Wylie's grave. The collection also includes group photographs of Drewry with members of his family: one taken outside their house and another at Buckingham Palace during his Victoria Cross investiture. Drewry's funeral is also covered, both the initial Royal Navy ceremony at Scapa Flow and the civil funeral at the City of London Cemetery, Manor Park. A photograph of Drewry's grave is also included in the collection. Other prints show George Drewry's brother Ralph in the summer of 1927 with his painting of the landings at 'V' Beach and also a set of three small panoramas showing Mudros, Kos and Tino. Finally, there are press cuttings relating to the VC award to Drewry and an obituary following his death in naval service in 1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Medals and decorations Death Dardanelles HMS Leamington Ottoman Empire Royal Navy
Royal Navy Gallipoli 1915 George Leslie Gallipoli 1915-1916 Drewry First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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