As part of his duties as an Officer of Littleover Royal British, Chris Drury took over the role, that Paul Anstee had been carrying out, that was placing wooden Remembrance Crosses on the individual graves and memorials of the Servicemen who lost their lives in World War I and World War II. The crosses are placed each year in St. Peter’s Churchyard during the two-week period leading up to Remembrance Sunday. It must be noted that some of the Servicemen are buried in graves within the churchyard and others are remembered as memorials on the graves of other family members.

Chris took over from Paul around 2012 and in order to identify the relevant graves each year he took photographs of each grave. He then researched each Serviceman’s details including those that are remembered on the Littleover War Memorial and produced biographies of each of them, these he included in two unpublished booklets. With the approach of the centenary of the start of World War I the booklet relating to that war was used as a basis for the Commemorative Walks which took place in 1914. These walks were put together with collaboration between the Vicar of St. Peter’s, Littleover Historical Society and Littleover In Bloom.

During his research Chris had put together a substantial amount of information relating to the Littleover War Memorial and other memorials within the Parish of Littleover, he therefore decided to write a book with memorials as its subject. The book “Littleover War Memorials - World Wars One And Two” was published by Littleover Historical Society in 2015.