Name
Ernest Louis Plumb
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2375
North Staffordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
XVIII. C. 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Botolph's Church Memorial, Shenleybury (now lost) (*1)
Pre War
Believed son of Son of Alfred Ernest and Mary Plumb, of Beeches Garage, Shenley, Herts. and brother of Thomas Leonard and James Victor Plumb.
Officially recorded as born Hendon, Middx and living in Tutbury, Staffs when he enlisted in Burton-on-Trent.
Additional Information
*1 Believed named on the lost memorial.
Ernest and his brothers, James and Thomas are also commemorated on the family headstone in Shenley (St. Botolph) Churchyard, Shenleybury. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF
ERNEST LEWIS, JAMES, VICTOR, THOMAS LEONARD SONS OF THE ABOVE [Alfred Ernest & Mary Plumb]
KILLED IN ACTION 1914 1918
WHO PLUCKED THE FLOWER, THE MASTER THE GARDENER HELD HIS PEACE
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
