Job Henry Charles Drain
{{Short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}}
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|name=Job Henry Charles Drain
|birth_date=15 October 1895
|death_date= 26 July 1975 (aged 79)
|death_place= Barking
|placeofburial=Rippleside Cemetery, Barking
|image=J.H.C.Drain VC, Royal Field Artillery.jpg
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|allegiance={{UK}}
|serviceyears= 1912–1919
|rank=Sergeant
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|unit=Royal Field Artillery
|battles= World War I
|awards= Victoria Cross
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Job Henry Charles Drain VC (15 October 1895 – 26 July 1975) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Biography
Drain was born on 15 October 1895 in Barking, Essex. He was 18 years old, and a Driver in the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
=Victoria Cross=
On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, when a captain (Douglas Reynolds) of the same battery was trying to recapture two guns, Driver Drain and another driver (Frederick Luke) volunteered to help and gave great assistance in the eventual saving of one of the guns. At the time they were under heavy artillery and infantry fire from the enemy who were only {{convert|100|yd}} away.{{London Gazette|issue=28985|supp=y|page=9957|date=24 November 1914}}
He later achieved the rank of Sergeant. He died on 26 July 1975, and is buried at Rippleside Cemetery, Barking.{{cite web |url=http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/coessex.htm |title=Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in the County of Essex |website=victoriacross.org.uk |access-date=20 August 2024}}
=Memorials=
File:Memorial to Job Henry Charles Drain, Barking (08).jpg
Drain was a resident of Barking, Essex. In autumn 2009, a statue of him was erected on Broadway, Barking. A blue heritage plaque was also erected at his last residence in Greatfields Road.
His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|year=1997|title=The Register of the Victoria Cross|editor-last=Buzzell|editor-first=Nora|location=Cheltenham, Gloucestershire|publisher=This England Alma House|isbn=0-906324-27-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Gliddon|first=Gerald|title=1914|series=VCs of the First World War|year=2011|orig-date=1994|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire|isbn=978-0752459080}}
- {{cite book|last=Harvey|first=David|author-link=David Charles Harvey|title=Monuments to Courage|publisher=Naval & Military Press Ltd|year=2000|isbn=1-84342-356-1}}
External links
- [https://victoriacrossonline.co.uk/job-henry-charles-drain-vc Biography]
- [http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/coessex.htm Location of grave and VC medal] (Essex)
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Category:People from Barking, London
Category:Royal Field Artillery soldiers
Category:British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
Category:Military personnel from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham