Second Lieutenant John Cecil George DRUMMOND (Did not matriculate)

59 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Born 15 March 1899 in Brentford, West London
Killed in action 8 October 1918, aged 19
Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France.

John Drummond was the son of John Andrew Blake Drummond and Eda Veronica Mary, née Schenkenwald, of “Elmthorpe”, Bexley Road, Eltham, London.

He was educated at Christ’s Hospital, and elected to a Postmastership in 1917, but did not matriculate.

He enlisted on 5 January 1918 as a Second Lieutenant in the RAF.

He was killed in action while flying in a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8, number E229, on 8 October 1918, along with his observer, Second Lieutenant Percy Chavasse.