Post War Airmen for Malcolm

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Group Captain Edward Stephen Dru Drury AFC #26131
Ex Cranwell graduate 1929
http://oldcranwellians.info/flight-c...-war/28-1.html

BIRTH 24 MARCH 1910 • Corfe Castle, Dorset, England

DEATH 17 SEPTEMBER 1948 • R.A.F. station Manby, Lincolnshire, England


Sunday Pictorial (Mirror)
Sunday 19 September 1948
Page 3

RAF expert dead in churchyard
An inquest was opened at Manby Aerodrome (Lincs) yesterday on Group Captain Edward Drury, A.F.C.. thirty-eight year-old
aircraft gun expert, who was found dead in a local churchyard. It is believed that police found a revolver near him.
Drury, who lived at Corfe Castle, Dorset introduced the 40mm. tank buster into the Desert Air Force in 1942.
He has a son of -five-

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Sefton 14 May 1953 , motorcycle accident on langtoft to Bourne road

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Sharp 21 October 1969 , passemger in RAF mini which hit lorry in for near Harrowby

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Butterworth 4 October 1955 , hit by car walking across Sandwich toll bridge

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Wood 26 May 1952 , hit van on motorcycle near Great Casterton