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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Henry Howard Drummond
« on: Sunday 09 February 14 20:11 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
Have been unable to attach as I don't own copyright and site would have to take article down.
Transcription..(there is nothing to say which newspaper or date, sorry.)
Sale Pilot Wins D.F.M
30 Flights over continent
A Sale Sergeant Pilot who has taken part in 30 roads over enemy country, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal in connection with a daylight raid on two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
He is Sergeant Henry Howard Drummond of 50 Woodhouse Lane, Sale.
Sergeant Drummond learned to fly in the Civil Air Guard, which he joined before war broke out. His bomber has a bulldog emblazoned on the fuselage with a boomerang superimposed.
Sergeant Drummond's home is in Jarrow-on-Tyne, but for the last five and a half years he has resided in Sale. Before the was he was a commercial traveller for a firm of paint manufacturers. He is an enthusiastic organist and singer, having been a member of Sale Musical Society for a number of years. He is a member of Backers Lane Methodist Church.
Hope that this has some extra information for you and that you didn't have & hope that wartime newspapers were more accurate...- presumably could be a local paper soon after he received DFM. More information on twitter account if this helps. - worth checking as there is a picture of him.
Fiona
Have been unable to attach as I don't own copyright and site would have to take article down.
Transcription..(there is nothing to say which newspaper or date, sorry.)
Sale Pilot Wins D.F.M
30 Flights over continent
A Sale Sergeant Pilot who has taken part in 30 roads over enemy country, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal in connection with a daylight raid on two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
He is Sergeant Henry Howard Drummond of 50 Woodhouse Lane, Sale.
Sergeant Drummond learned to fly in the Civil Air Guard, which he joined before war broke out. His bomber has a bulldog emblazoned on the fuselage with a boomerang superimposed.
Sergeant Drummond's home is in Jarrow-on-Tyne, but for the last five and a half years he has resided in Sale. Before the was he was a commercial traveller for a firm of paint manufacturers. He is an enthusiastic organist and singer, having been a member of Sale Musical Society for a number of years. He is a member of Backers Lane Methodist Church.
Hope that this has some extra information for you and that you didn't have & hope that wartime newspapers were more accurate...- presumably could be a local paper soon after he received DFM. More information on twitter account if this helps. - worth checking as there is a picture of him.
Fiona