Name: DRUMMOND, GEOFFREY HENEAGE Initials: G H Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Second Hand Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Patrol Service Unit Text: H.M.S. Pembroke. Secondary Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Secondary Unit Text: formerly Lieut. Comdr. Age: 55 Date of Death: 21/04/1941 Service No: LT/JX 211029 Awards: V C Additional information: Legion D'Honneur. Son of Capt. Algernon Heneage Drummond, formerly of The Rifle Brigade, and of Margaret Elizabeth Drummond (nee Benson); husband of Maude Aylmer Tindal Drummond (nee Bosanquet), of Chalfont St. Peter. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Spec. Memorial. Cemetery: CHALFONT ST. PETER (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY Citation: The following details are given in the London Gazette of August 28th, 1918 : On the night of May 9th-10th, 1918, Lieut. G. H. Drummond, in command of M.L. 254, although severely wounded by a shell which burst on board, remained on the bridge and navigated his badly damaged vessel into Ostend Harbour. He placed her alongside Vindictive and took off two officers and thirty-eight men, some of whom were killed and many wounded while embarking. Not until there was no one left alive on the Vindictive did he back his vessel clear of the piers before sinking exhausted from his wounds. It was due to the indomitable courage of this very gallant officer that the majority of the crew of the Vindictive were rescued.
Second Hand GEOFFREY HENEAGE DRUMMOND Victoria Cross LT/JX 211029, H.M.S. Pembroke., Royal Naval Patrol Service formerly Lieut. Comdr., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died age 55 on 21 April 1941 Legion D'Honneur. Son of Capt. Algernon Heneage Drummond, formerly of The Rifle Brigade, and of Margaret Elizabeth Drummond (nee Benson); husband of Maude Aylmer Tindal Drummond (nee Bosanquet), of Chalfont St. Peter. Remembered with honour CHALFONT ST. PETER (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY
UK, Victoria Cross Medals, 1857-2007 Name: Geoffrey Heneage Drummond Birth Date: 25 Jan 1886 Birth Place: St Jame's Place, London Death Date: 21 Apr 1941 Death Place: Rotherhithe, South East London UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: Geoffrey Heneage Drummond Event: Death Birth Date: 25 Jan 1886 Birth Place: Mayfair, London Death Date: 21 Apr 1941 Death Age: 55 TD
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION The Royal Hotel, Back Lane, Purfleet, Essex NAME DOB OCCUPATION Henry J Nicklen 08 Oct 1884 Hotel Manager (Licensed) Patrick J Nicklen 19 Jun 1916 Electric Are Welder Martha C Nicklen 18 Jul 1884 Hotel Manager Kathleen B Van-Dalsum (Nicklen) 24 Aug 1916 Hotel Assistant Edward Woods 22 Jan 1912 General Engineering Draughtsman Marie A Barker 23 Oct 1887 Cook (Hotel) Ronald Jones 09 May 1916 Barman (Hotel) Edward Dixon 24 Feb 1918 Kitchen Hand (Barman) Geoffrey H Drummond 25 Jan 1886 Correspondence Clerical Asst (H I Millbank) RNVR
