Name: Job Drain
Rank: Dvr
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Borough: London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Date of Action: 26-Aug 1914
Memorial Location: Outside the Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS
Dvr JOB DRAIN
Outside the Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS
On 26th 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 100 yards (91 m) away.