- Contributed by
- childofthewar
- People in story:
- Harry William Drewery, Ruth Lowden
- Location of story:
- North Atlantic and Penrith Cumbria
- Article ID:
- A4401451
- Contributed on:
- 08 July 2005
Harry was my eldest brother and was 17 when he sailed on the King Edward en route to America. I was 12 years old. All I ever knew about his death was that the ship was torpedoed on December 27th 1942 and that he was not a survivor. Our Mam never talked about it.
One day in September last year I was doing family research and I Googled my maiden name. Much to my surprise among the Drewery's that came up was Harry's Memorial. As this was not the CWGC site I entered it and discovered it was
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