Charles Drury
Attended Brunts School and was employed as a school teacher in Basford. In 1939 he was boarding with his future wife's family at 107 Dovecote Road, Newthorpe.
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Son of Charles and Rosanna Drury of 2 Burns Cottage, Warsop.
Siblings: Bertha, Florence, William, Jennie, Arthur and Harry.
Married Marjorie Clifton of 107 Dovecote Road, Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire in 1940
IBCC: Vickers Wellington III, serial Number BJ689.
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Flew from RAF Stradishall,near Bury St Edmunds Suffolk for a sortie over Saarbrucken. Shot down by a night fighter on the journey home with the loss of the full crew.
101 Sqdn were specially equipped with radio jamming equipment. They had a German speaking operative who would break radio silence to jam German fighter controller's broadcasts and sometimes spreading disinformation to cause distraction. However by breaking radio silence they were highly vulnerable to being tracked and attack and as a result the squadron had the highest casualty rate of any RAF squadron.
One of hie fellow crew members was Ernest Akos Frederick De Bartok an Hungarian/Canadian who had only married on the 4th of September 1942.
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