Anne Archibald Drummond, Leading Wren, Women's Royal Naval Service

A.A. DRUMMOND

Leading Wren WRNS 19919

H.M.S. "Midge"

18th March 1943 Age 24

 

Daughter of James and Margaret Drummond, of Crieff, Perthshire.

 

 

H.M.S. Midge was a Coastal Forces Base in Great Yarmouth from 1st January 1941 to 21st July 1945. Responsibility was for Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gun Boats and Mine Layers. On 17th March 1943, there was an air raid which killed 8 Wrens and injured many more.

 

 

 

 

For many years Great Yarmouth was a naval base, containing a Royal Naval Hospital and there are three naval plots in the burial ground at Great Yarmouth (Caister) Cemetery which contains war graves of both World Wars, as well as other Naval graves dating from 1906 onwards. Some of the 1914-1918 graves are in groups to the west of the entrance, while others are scattered. After the 1914-1918 War, a Cross of Sacrifice was erected near the mortuary chapel. During the early months of the 1939-1945 War, ground in plot M in the eastern part of the cemetery, north-east of the mortuary chapel, was set aside for service war graves, and this is now the War Graves Plot. It was used for Army, Air Force, Merchant Navy and Allied casualties, and the Naval plot A was used for Royal Naval casualties and for some of the Merchant Navy men; but there are a number of scattered war graves in the cemetery. There are now 168 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 115 of the 1939-1945 war commemorated in this site. Of these, 13 from the 1939-1945 War are unidentified. There are also 3 Foreign National war burials there.

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