Frederick John Drummond
1891-1914
Father Nm: Major John William Ainslie Drummond (1857-1936) was born 23 Jun 1857 Bengal, India. He died in 1936 at Lewes. Sussex.
Mother Nm: Florence Charlotte Blencowe, [1205] 1859-1944
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Born 1891
15 JUN 1891 Eastbourne, Sussex
1901 Census
Pupil at Evelyn’s School, Hillingdon
Eton College
1911 CENSUS
Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey
John Drummond 53
Florence Drummond 51
Agnes Drummond 24
Hester Drummond 21
Frederick Drummond 19 Clerk
Margaret Green 23
Clara Lawson 20
Elsie Beyer 18
Annie Osborn 19
Herbert Stevens 15
Before 1914
Emigrated to Kenya to take up farming.
WW1
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Drummond Frederick John 1891 Eastbourne Trooper East African Mouted Rifles
1914
8 August. Volunteers to join East African Mounted Rifles E.A.M.R. a local volunteer force formed to defend British East Africa from its immediate neighbour to the south German East Africa. The Volunteers trying to hold the line for an Indian Expeditionary Force travelling from India.
A map of East Africa showing the border between the warring states running from Lake Victoria to Wanga (Tanga) on the Indian Ocean. The British territory is today the two countries Uganda and Kenya and the German territory now Tanzania.
The Enemy
September. From the Battle For Longido Mountain. “Events that occurred in August and September, 1914 had a great bearing on the decisions that lead to the Battle of Longido Mountain in November. During August several German raiding parties had attempted to reach the Magadi branch railway of the Uganda Railroad. At this time, the rail line was defended by only 48 men of the Soda Company’s local defense force scattered along the rails in small posts. None of these were successful. A small mounted party of polizei (police) under Hauptmann Lincke set out on 10 September, but it was turned back after a skirmish with an E.A.M.R. (East African Mounted Rifle Regiment) patrol on the same day west of Oldoinyo Erok”
17 September German raid from their post at Longido were discovered by British forces near their camp at upper Manga river near Oldoinyo Erok. British sustain casualties.
Incident
Deutsches Feldgeschütz in Stellung. The German troops and Askaris who fought alongside them
3 November. Killed in Action On this day the British forces consisting of E.A.M.R. and members of the Indian Expeditionary Force attack the German Post at Mount Longido . Details of the battle here. Frederick was among 10 men of the E.A.M.R. killed in this attack. Note: Mount Longrido is in modern day Tanzania
Medals
Sources
- Ancestry and BFA database
- The Battle For Longido Mountain, 3 – 4 November 1914 By Dennis L. Bishop and Holger Dobold
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983
- 1901 Census of England & Wales
- Eton School Register, Vol. VII, 1899-1902
- List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War
- De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour
- www.thepeerage.com
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Debt of Honour Register
- Museum of The Great War Forum
- The Times: Digital Archive
- Graham Johnson of Chailey for the photograph of Frederick Drummond’s memorial plaque
Memorials
The Libro d’oro, bound in a fine black goatskin binding by Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945), has been displayed in the war memorial side chapel in Eton’s College Chapel since 1923, the year of its completion.
The record of service is bookended by two poems by Old Etonians. The manuscript opens with ‘Into Battle’ by Julian Grenfell (1888-1915), written in Flanders in April 1915, just weeks before he died of wounds sustained in fighting. The book closes with the words to ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, by Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918), an earlier poem which he had re-written in 1918 in view of the losses of the war, and which became a well-known patriotic hymn after being set to music in 1921 by Gustav Holst (1874-1934).
The Libro d’oro, bound in a fine black goatskin binding by Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945), has been displayed in the war memorial side chapel in Eton’s College Chapel since 1923, the year of its completion.
Nairobi British and Indian Memorial at Nairobi, Kenya.
Gallery
There are service records in the National archives for this person they can be viewed and download from their website https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Volume 1
Obituary
Frederick John Drummond was born at Eastbourne, Sussex on 15th June 1891 and his birth registered at Eastbourne in the September quarter of that year.
He was the eldest son of Major John William Ainslie Drummond (1857-1936) and Florence Charlotte Drummond (nee Blencowe, 1859-1944). Frederick does not appear in Chailey Parish Magazine’s monthly roll of serving men but his name is included on the village war memorial and on a memorial tablet in the now redundant St Mary’s Church, Chailey (below).
Frederick’s connection with the village appears to have been through his association with the Blencowe family and, given their influence in local affairs, it seems quite possible that John Ingham Blencowe, John Campion Blencowe and Frances Isabel Blencowe (amongst others) would have exerted sufficient pressure to ensure that their nephew was properly commemorated.
Frederick had three brothers and sisters: Hester Katherine Drummond, Agnes Harriet Drummond and Francis William Drummond (b. 4th September 1894). Frederick appears on the 1901 census as a nine year old pupil at Evelyn’s School, Hillingdon and was later educated at Eton College (1905-1910).
Before the First World War he settled as a farmer in British East Africa (now Kenya) and in August 1914, joined up with The East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse) as 126 Trooper Frederick J Drummond. He was killed in action on 3rd November 1914 at Longido Hills and is commemorated on the Nairobi British and Indian Memorial at Nairobi, Kenya.
His name appears in De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour where it is noted that his father’s address was 27 Stanhope Gardens London S.W, and Hollycombe, Englefield Green. The Commonwealth War Graves’ Commission’s Debt of Honour Register gives the additional information that he was the son of Major John Drummond of Beedcote, Horsham, Sussex. There is no mention of Frederick John Drummond in Soldiers Died in the Great War.
On Tuesday 10th November 1914, under the headline, LOSSES IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA, The Times reported that “Mr Frederick John Drummond, who was 23 years of age, was the eldest son of Major and Mrs John Drummond of 27, Stanhope Gardens.”
Further information on Bowker’s Horse (http://www.frontiersmen.org.au/kenya.htm) and the Battle of Longido Hills (http://www.geocities.com/cdferree/history/longido.html) can be found by clicking on the links.