John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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going without him in his regular place. The F. C. told him he thought that he (Pat) had had enough for that day; but Pat wasn't having any of that and insisted on going up on his regular duties. As the result of a piece of bad judgment on the part of the leader of the patrol, they got into a scrap against odds of 20 to 8. Pat got a Hun but three others jumped on him and after a lively time Pat got a bullet through his upper lip, above his teeth. Part of his machine was shot away and hit him on the head. He remembers no more until he woke the next morning in a German
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.