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Somerset Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1851/61 Census lookup for James Drew, Wells
« on: Wednesday 21 April 10 20:10 BST (UK) »
I appreciate that this is rather an old thread, but I have some information about Gilbert Drew.
He did indeed serve, he then contracted diabetes, which was attributed to the strain of active service (particularly service on the Somme), he was then discharged, and died a few months later at home in Dinder as the result of his diabetes. He therefore meets the conditions laid down for commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commemoration, and I have set in motion the process for them, and the MOD to review his case, and in a few months time he will hopefully finally be added to the register.
His pension papers are now available see http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1114&iid=miuk1914a_084212-01800&fn=Gilbert+Victor&ln=Drew&st=r&ssrc=&pid=258121 and medal card http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=2846661 (there will also be a colour version of this on Ancestry, but I don't have the link to hand).
My interest in him is that he also appears on the Roll of Honour of the Central Council for Church Bell Ringers, a photo of the page on which his name appears can be found at http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/gtw/book/pages/index.php?name1=Dewes&name2=Evans&type=gif&width=900&height=1170 and more info at http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/gtw - I've been helping to find out more about the men named.
David
He did indeed serve, he then contracted diabetes, which was attributed to the strain of active service (particularly service on the Somme), he was then discharged, and died a few months later at home in Dinder as the result of his diabetes. He therefore meets the conditions laid down for commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commemoration, and I have set in motion the process for them, and the MOD to review his case, and in a few months time he will hopefully finally be added to the register.
His pension papers are now available see http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1114&iid=miuk1914a_084212-01800&fn=Gilbert+Victor&ln=Drew&st=r&ssrc=&pid=258121 and medal card http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=2846661 (there will also be a colour version of this on Ancestry, but I don't have the link to hand).
My interest in him is that he also appears on the Roll of Honour of the Central Council for Church Bell Ringers, a photo of the page on which his name appears can be found at http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/gtw/book/pages/index.php?name1=Dewes&name2=Evans&type=gif&width=900&height=1170 and more info at http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/gtw - I've been helping to find out more about the men named.
David