{"id":1593,"date":"2017-06-29T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/?page_id=1593"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:52:55","slug":"adolf-m-drey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/the-biographies\/adolf-m-drey\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolf M. Drey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(St. Louis, June 10, 1896 \u2013 Chicago, August 16, 1948).1<\/a><\/p>\n

Drey\u2019s father and uncle were born in Bavaria; they emigrated and settled in St. Louis, where they established a prosperous window and plate glass business. Drey\u2019s father died in 1905.2<\/a>\u00a0 His mother, born in Cincinnati to German immigrant parents, was prominent in St. Louis musical and Jewish circles for many years.3<\/a>\u00a0 Drey spent part of his childhood in New York at the home of his brother Walter, who would go on to co-found Forbes Magazine<\/i>.4<\/a>\u00a0 Drey attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he was president of his class (1917), and active in the dramatic society and the founder of a literary magazine.5<\/a>\u00a0 Sometime in the summer of 1917 he signed up for aviation training and attended ground school at the University of Illinois, graduating September 1, 1917.6<\/a><\/p>\n

Along with most of his ground school classmates, Drey chose or was chosen to continue training in Italy and was thus among the 150 men of the \u201cItalian\u201d or \u201cSecond Oxford Detachment\u201d who departed New York on the Carmania<\/i> September 18, 1917. They stopped at Halifax to join a convoy, and then set off across the Atlantic on September 21, 1917. After an uneventful crossing the Carmania<\/i> docked at Liverpool on October 2, 1917, and the men learned, to their initial dismay, that they were to proceed not to Italy, but to Oxford, where they spent October going through ground school (again). On November 3, 1917, Drey travelled with most of the detachment to Harrowby Camp near Grantham in Lincolnshire to attend machine gun school.<\/p>\n

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From Foss’s diary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In mid-November it was determined that there was room at British flying schools for fifty of the Grantham men, and Drey was among those selected. Along with nine others (William Wyman Mathews, George Orrin Middleditch, Vincent Paul Oatis, Chester Albert Pudrith, Joseph Hiserodt Sharpe, Fred Trufant Shoemaker, Walter Andrew Stahl, Lynn Lemuel Stratton, and Ervin David Shaw), he set off on November 19, 1917, for Waddington (about twenty miles north of Grantham) where several R.F.C. training squadrons were located.7<\/a><\/p>\n

Drey was one of many men whose appointments as first lieutenants \u201cnon flying\u201d were recommended by Pershing in a cablegram of April 8, 1918, and confirmed, finally, over a month later.8<\/a> Drey was ordered to active duty May 27, 1918.9<\/a>\u00a0 The next information about him comes from his R.A.F. service record, which has a Medical Boards note dated July 19, 1918, \u201cUnfit G. S. [General Service] 8 wks.\u201d Another notation on the service record \"\"indicates that he was ordered on October 26, 1918, from Waddington to the No. 4 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping at Thetford; whether he had remained at Waddington since 1917 or had more recently been reassigned there is not known. From \u201c4 S of N & B D\u201d he was assigned on November 11, 1918, to American H.Q., London.10<\/a><\/p>\n

After the war, Drey settled in the Chicago area and worked in business and advertising.11<\/a><\/p>\n

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Notes<\/h3>\n

(For complete bibliographic entries, please consult the list of\u00a0works and web pages cited<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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1<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0For his place and date of birth, see Ancestry.com, U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942<\/i>, record for Adolf Drey. For his place and date of death, see \u201cAd Executive Dies in Chicago.\u201d The photo is taken from The Hatchet<\/i>, vol. 15, p. 37.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See the biography of Adolf L. Drey on pp. 415-16 of Stevens, St. Louis<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Peters, \u201cA Century of Fridays with Lizzie\u2019s Ladies\u201d and Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census<\/i>, records for Max, Lizzie, and Jenette Helman [sic<\/i>].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census<\/i>, record for Adolf M Drey, and Wikipedia, \u201cForbes\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See The Hatchet<\/i>, vol. 15, p. 44.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGround School Graduations [for September 1, 1917].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Foss, Diary, entry for November 15, 1917.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Cablegrams 874-S and 1303-R.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0McAndrew, James W., \u201cSpecial Orders No. 147.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See The National Archives (United Kingdom), Royal Air Force officers’ service records 1918-1919<\/i>, record for Adolf Drey (this record has been conflated with that of A[dolphe] Drey, who was killed in Egypt I 1917).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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11<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See the entry for Drey in Gardner\u2019s Who\u2019s Who in American Aeronautics<\/i>; Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census<\/i>, record for Adolf Drey; and 1940 United States Federal Census<\/i>, record for Adolf Drey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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