Notes
The school website (see References) gives this biographical information: 'The son of Arthur and Josephine Drabble of Bayswater, London, he was born on the 6th of March 1918. He was at Downside, Smythe House, from September 1927 until July 1936. He was first in the Junior School and moved to the Upper School in September 1932.
He joined the Royal Artillery and was killed whilst serving in the 65th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, part of the 1st British Army in Tunisia. He was 25. He has no known grave, but his name appears on the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial in Tunisia.'