Brian Drummond

Brian is an avid Victoria Cross researcher, particularly regarding the 62 Royal Regiment of Artillery Victoria Cross recipients. Over the last ten years, he has been compiling his research on the life stories of all 62 recipients with the aim of having a book or series of books published on all of them.

An ex-military serviceman who served for 23 years (1977-2000) in the Royal Regiment of Artillery achieving the rank of Warrant Officer Class One (Regimental Sergeant Major). After the army and various jobs, he was employed overseas in the private security world from 2003 until 2014 and more recently on a variety of special security related jobs in the UK.

In 1997, he complied the History of 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, which was published and given to all newcomers to the regiment. In 2019, he was instrumental in confirming that Arthur Frederick Pickard VC was born in Worksop in Nottinghamshire and was therefore their first VC recipient from the town alongside Serjeant William Henry Johnson, The Bell Ringer VC. Eventually Arthur’s name was added to the Nottinghamshire Victoria Cross memorial at Victoria Embankment in Nottingham with assistance from Anthony Higton from the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Victoria Cross Committee and a memorial was unveiled in Worksop to honour AF Pickard VC.

Currently living in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire with his wife, Marion, and two Yorkshire terriers. He has a stepson and two daughters with six grandchildren. Hobbies, apart from all things VC, include drawing and running.

Ubique: The 62 Victoria Crosses of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Part One–For Valour in the Crimean War

Part One - For Valour in the Crimean War brings together the life stories of the very varied group of nine officers and men spanning the period of war on the Crimean Peninsula. Each story will give the reader essential information on their birth, early life, enlistment in Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s armed forces, the individuals act of bravery, how being awarded the VC effects their lives up to their death and burial location. And finally, the current location of their Victoria Cross.

Ubique: The 62 Victoria Crosses of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Part Two–For Valour During the Indian Mutiny 1857-1859

Part Two, For Valour During the Indian Mutiny brings together the life stories of the very varied group of 17 officers and men spanning the period of the mutiny.

Ubique: The 62 Victoria Crosses of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Part Three-For Valour during Victoria’s Small Wars, 1860-1889

Part Three, For Valour during Victoria’s Small Wars 1860 1889 brings together the life stories of a very varied group of six officers and men spanning the period of the 1863–1885.