CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM
Manor Park
London
England
Historical Information
Many of the soldiers buried here died in Bethnal Green Military Hospital.
The Screen Wall at the back of the War Graves Plot commemorates by name those buried in the plot or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be marked by headstones and those who were cremated in the City of London Crematorium.
Identified Casualties 722.
Many of the soldiers buried here died in Bethnal Green Military Hospital.
The Screen Wall at the back of the War Graves Plot commemorates by name those buried in the plot or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be marked by headstones and those who were cremated in the City of London Crematorium.
Identified Casualties 722.
Lieutenant George Leslie Drewry, V. C.
H. M. Trawler "William Jackson", Royal Naval Reserve, died 2nd August 1918, aged 23. Plot 197. 90251
Son of Thomas and Mary Drewry, of 58, Claremont Rd., Forest Gate.
Citation: An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29264, dated 13th Aug., 1915, records the following:- "Assisted Commander Unwin at the work of securing the lighters under heavy rifle and maxim fire. He was wounded in the head, but continued his work and twice subsequently attempted to swim from lighter to lighter with a line."
Pictures below © Åge Jakobsen
H. M. Trawler "William Jackson", Royal Naval Reserve, died 2nd August 1918, aged 23. Plot 197. 90251
Son of Thomas and Mary Drewry, of 58, Claremont Rd., Forest Gate.
Citation: An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29264, dated 13th Aug., 1915, records the following:- "Assisted Commander Unwin at the work of securing the lighters under heavy rifle and maxim fire. He was wounded in the head, but continued his work and twice subsequently attempted to swim from lighter to lighter with a line."
Pictures below © Åge Jakobsen
