Alan Edmund Drury in the AFS and REME

• Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: British history; European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); International history; Their Finest Hour; World War Two; Africa; African; Armed Forces; Armies; Army; Atlantic; Battle; Britain; British; British Empire; Commonwealth; Diaries; Diary; Egypt; Egyptian; El Alamein; El-Alamein; Empire; Europe; European; Italian; Italy; Libya; Libyan; Naval; Navy; North Africa; North African Campaign; Photo; Photograph; Photographs; Photos; Sea Battle; South Africa; South African; Tunisia; Tunisian; Tunisian Campaign; UK; United Kingdom; Ilford; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25939534.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Alan_Edmund_Drury_in_the_AFS_and_REME/25939534

The contributor brought a lot of photos of their father, Alan Edmund Drury, known as 'Ted'. He was born in 1912 and died in 2000. The photos were all taken in Africa. In 1939, Ted joined the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), based in Ilford, Essex, as a driver. A photo shows him in the driving...