George Leslie Drewry was 20 years old, and a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War when the following action took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 25 April 1915 during the landing at V Beach, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, Midshipman Drewry and three others (Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson, George McKenzie Samson, William Charles Williams) of HMS River Clyde, assisted the commander of the ship (Edward Unwin) at the work of securing the lighters under a very 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. He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant - George was accidentally killed whilst on active service on HM Trawler ‘William Jackson' at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands. A block fell from a derrick and fractured his skull on 3 August 1918. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Imperial War Museum (London, England) and he is buried in the City of London Cemetery at Manor Park. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22764 http://www.newhamstory.com/taxonomy/term/94?page=1
Three Royal Navy midshipmen, George Drewry, Wilfred Malleson and Greg Russell, having a picnic on Imbros during the Battle of Gallipoli. Drewry and Malleson had just been awarded the Victoria Cross during the landing at V Beach, Cape Helles, on 25 April 1915. The are just "kids" aren't they ??
