Message from Rick Lambert Ray Drury The gap left in our lives now that Ray has gone is a sad gap indeed. He was the most sincere and trustworthy of friends and, I’m proud to add, my Father considered Ray his best friend. To me Ray has always been a reminder of what’s good in the world – a calm, caring, good-humoured, positive person – someone so...more

Raymond Robert Edward Drury – A Son’s Perspective On his return to Australia after the war, Dad settled with his new bride in Stanley Street, Bondi Junction, before building the family home at 27 Crowley Crescent, West Ryde. Jill and I grew up in this house and enjoyed a particularly happy childhood there, knowing that we were always deeply loved a...more

Ray Drury’s Story I was born in 1919 – the year after the end of the First World War. I was reared and lived on my Dad’s small dairy farm blazed out of the bush in the Lansdowne Valley 16 miles north of Taree or perhaps 2hours north of Taree by buggy and pair – no sealed roads in those days. One had to be fairly skilled in keeping wheels out of rut...more