Andrew Boggs Drum (4 December 1883 – 22 January 1955) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
[4] In 1906, he served for a short time with then Major John A. Lejeune aboard the protected cruiser USS Columbia.
[7][8] While in charge of South Carolina's Marines, he participated in raising the United States flag during the occupation of Veracruz.
Sixty-eight years earlier, his grandfather, Captain Simon Drum (West Point Class of 1829), had been present at the flag raising in that city during the Siege of Veracruz.
The next month, the battalion deployed aboard the battleships USS Arkansas and USS Wyoming (BB-32) for a 10-week training cruise, participated in military reviews, Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Galveston, transited the Panama Canal and traveled up the west coast to Bremerton, Washington.