Professional Hockey Player. He was also known as Jim Drummond or Jimmy Drummond. He was born one of five children as James Henry Drummond to Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Drummond in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on October 20, 1918. He was educated locally and later pursued a hockey career beginning in and around the Toronto area playing with numerous early hockey clubs. He played the position of Defenseman beginning with the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey Association or OHA from 1937 to 1938. The 5'9" and 170bs blond defense ace also played with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey Association or OHA from 1938 to 1939, with whom he first rose to prominence as a defense player when he won the Memorial Cup Championship. He then played with the Oshawa G-Men in the Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League or OHA sr from 1938 to 1939, and the Toronto Indians of the Toronto International Hockey League or TIHL from 1939 to 1940. During this time World War II had broken out and he put his hockey career on hold and decided to serve his country. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force or RCAF and the Canadian Infantry Corps and was shipped overseas. While serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force or RCAF and the Canadian Infantry Corps he continued to play hockey. He played with the Toronto RCAF hockey team of the Toronto Men's Hockey League or TMHL, and he revisited the Toronto Marlboros and played with them from 1940 to 1941 winning the Allan Cup during this time, and the Cornwall Flyers and the Cornwall Army of the Quebec Senior Hockey League or QSHL, both out of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Following World War II, he was drafted and signed as a free agent by the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League or NHL but only played two games with them during the 1944 to 1945 hockey season before returning to play hockey in the amateur minor leagues. He then played with the New York Rovers of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League or EAHL from 1944 to 1945, the Toronto Orphans of the American Hockey League or AHL from 1944 to 1945, the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League or AHL from 1944 to 1946, the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League or AHL from 1946 to 1947, and lastly with the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League or AHL from 1948 to 1949. His total hockey scores include 179 games played with the American Hockey League or AHL, 2 games with the National Hockey League or NHL, 12 games played with the Eastern Amateur Hockey League or EAHL, 16 games played with the Toronto Mens Hockey League or TMHL, 64 games played with the Quebec Senior Hockey League QSHL, 1 game played with the Toronto International Hockey League or TIHL, 28 games played with the Ontario Hockey Association Seniors or OHAsr, and 26 games played with the Ontario Hockey Association or OHA, not to mention numerous goals, assists, points, penalties in minutes in both the regular seasons and in the playoffs during his professional and amateur hockey career. He sadly had to retire from playing hockey due to illness in 1949. His total professional and amateur hockey career lasted from 1937 to 1949. An All-Around Athlete, he had also played softball and baseball with the Peoples Credit Jewellers in the Beaches Fastball League during his years in the Toronto area. He passed away following a "three-year-long illness" which was later determined to be a liver ailment at the Peterborough Civic Hospital in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, on December 12, 1950, at the age of 32. Following his death, his funeral service was held at the Kaye Funeral Home in Peterborough and a requiem mass was held in his memory at the St. Alphonsus Liguori Church also in Peterborough before his internment was held at the St. Paul's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Norwood, Ontario, Canada. He was married to Lenore Lewis Drummond who lived from January 15, 1920-November 23, 1998. His wife had survived him by almost fifty years. The couple had no children together. His simple gravestone reads IN LOVING MEMORY OF JAMES H. DRUMMOND OCTOBER 20, 1918-DECEMBER 12, 1950...BELOVED HUSBAND OF LENORE LEWIS January 15, 1920-NOVEMBER 23, 1998...Requiescat in Pace which is Latin for Rest in Peace.....The Jimmy Drummond Memorial Trophy was posthumously established in his honor and was first awarded in 1953 to the best senior hockey player in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.