PRIVATE IVOR DREW – Service Number 6670

Ivor Drew is one of the 49 men who served for their country and was killed in Action in the First World War, whose name is listed on St Mark’s Church Cenotaph in Mosbrough. Ivor Drew was born at Rochdale, Lancashire in the Civil Parish of Kearsley. He was born on 18 March 1874 to Joseph and Hannah Drew and was Baptised on 24 February 1882 at St John the Evangelist, Farnsworth & Kersley Lancashire. Ivor at the age of 7 years lived at 81 Clammerclough Road Bolton with his parents and Sisters Ellen, Ann, Sarah, Roseannah and his brothers Thomas, and Joseph.  This is according to 1881 Census on Ancestry reference Vessel 16a, Piece 3817, Folio 16 and Page number 26.

        

1901 Census showed that Ivor Drew age 27 was a lodger at Mary Fretwell’s at Ilkeston, he worked as a coal miner, Hewer.

Ivor married Selina Jesse Greenwood in the quarter year of Oct-Nov-Dec 1906 in the District of Sheffield.  Volume 9c page 870. He had a son called Frank aged 3 and a daughter aged 2 called Dorothy Drew.

Ivor Drew on 18 December 1911 at the age of 38 was sentenced to Imprisonment or Servitude at HMP Wakefield Prison.  Also on 29 March 1912 for the same sentenced and again on 28 November 1913, he was sentenced to Imprisonment or Servitude at HMP Wakefield prison.

Ivor enlisted at Salford, Lancs into the Lancashire Fusiliers  2nd Battalion, his regimental number was 6670.

Ivor died at France and Flanders of wounds on 31 May 1915 at the age of 41, he was Buried at HAZEBROUCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Son of the late Joseph Drew, of Brimington, Derbyshire; husband of Selina Drew, of 28, South St., Mosborough, near Sheffield.

 

 

 

 

Location: Nord, France     Number of casualties: 930   Cemetery/memorial reference: II. A. 18.

                  

Inscription says

“UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY THY WILL BE DONE”

Ivor Drew was awarded the 1914/1915 Medal, the Victory Medal, the British War Medal and the Widows Medal has shown on the Medal Index card below.

Ivor Drew effects which was left to his widow Selina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit  to: https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk; https://www.cwgc.orgwww.ancestry.co.uk/‎ Typed & collated by Linda Taylor (nee Staton) April 2018