Brigadier-General Charles Mills "Bud" Drury, (17 May 1912 – 12 January 1991) was a

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military officer, lawyer, civil servant, businessman and politician.Charles Mills Drury
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Early life and education

Born in Westmount, Quebec, he was the elder son of Victor Montague Drury (1884–1962), a prominent businessman who was the son of Major-General Charles William Drury (1856–1913) and the brother-in-law of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. He was educated at

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and

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, and he later attended the

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( B.C.L., 1936) and the

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Career

Drury served in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1933 to 1936,The Hon. Charles Drury
Parliament of Canada biography. then he practiced law from 1936 to 1939. During

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, he was a

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officer and from March−July 1944 commanded the 4th Field Regiment of the

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, part of the

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, which took part in Operation Overlord, before being made the 2nd Division's General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) and later becoming the

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(CRA) of the 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General in 1945. After the war, he headed the

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mission in Poland from 1945 to 1947. He then entered the

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and was appointed as deputy minister of the Department of National Defence from 1949 to 1955. He spent 1955 to 1962 working on private family business before running for election to the House of Commons of Canada. Drury was elected as a

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party

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(MP) for the

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riding of

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(later Westmount) in the 1962 federal election. He was re-elected in the

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, 1965,

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and 1974 elections. He held many ministerial positions in the governments of

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Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, including Defence Production, Industry, Trade and Commerce,

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, National Defence (acting),

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and Finance (acting). After leaving politics in 1978, Drury became chairman of the

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from 1978 to 1984. He was made an Officer of the

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in 1980..

Electoral record (partial)

References

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