An interesting Western Front Military Cross and twice Mentioned in Despatches group awarded to Captain, later Major K.K. Drury, Royal Army Medical Corps who saw service on the Western Front being awarded the Military Cross in the London Gazette of 3rd June 1916, before later twice being Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette, firstly on 29th May 1917 and then for a second time on 25th May 1918. He would relinquish his commission being granted the rank of Major in 1920, and would go on to practice medicine in Leicester, holding the position of President of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in 1950-51.
Group of 4: Military Cross, GVR cypher, the reverse engraved ‘ST. JEAN K.K. DRURY 19-12-15 YPRES’ 1914-1915 Star; (CAPT. K.K. DRURY. R.A.M.C.) British War Medal and Victory Medal with Mentioned in Despatches oak leaf; (MAJOR K.K. DRURY.) Mounted loose for wear.
Condition: mounted loose for wear, Good Very Fine
Along with:
Small base metal cross ‘P G C’ to the obverse.
Small silver-gilt and enamel Royal Medico-Psychological Association Badge, the reverse engraved ‘K.K. Drury, M.C. M.D. D.P.M. President 1950-51’
Ribbon bar for Military Cross, 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal.
Kenneth Kirkpatrick Drury was educated at Tipperary Grammar School, before later graduating from Dublin University in 1912 and would be listed in the 1913 Medical Register as practicing at Swift Brook, Saggart, County Dublin.
Serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the London Gazette of 9th September 1914, would be decorated with the Military Cross in the London Gazette on 3rd June 1916, and later was Mentioned in Despatches on 29th May 1917 whilst serving with the Army Medical Service, Headquarters Staff and again on 25th May 1918. He relinquished his commission and was granted the rank of Major in 1920. An image of him dated 1917 appearing in the diary of his brother Noel Drury of the 6th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, held by the Army Records Society.
He would later serve on the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board and in 1952 whilst living in Leicester was appointed a member of the Standing Mental Health Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council, the Minister of Health announces.
He died on 9th August 1984 in Burnham on Sea and left an estate of £57,112
