Name
James Victor Plumb
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/04/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
15058
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CARNOY MILITARY CEMETERY
L. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Shenley Village Memorial, St Botolph's Church Memorial, Shenleybury (now lost) (*1)
Pre War
Son of Alfred Ernest and Mary Plumb, Beeches Garage, Shenley, baptised 16 Sep 1894, Holy Innocents, Kingsbury,
Brother of Thomas Leonard and Ernest Louis Plumb.
Census: 1901 Census living at The Hyde, Hendon with parents and 1911 Census living at Oakley Cottages, New Road, Shenley with parents and brother Thomas Leonard Letch.
Occupation Stable Hand
Additional Information
Back Pay and Gratuities £13 4s paid to mother. Brother of Thomas Leonard and Ernest Louis Plumb who also served and fell in France.
*1 Believed named on the lost memorial.
James and his brothers, Ernest 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
Taff Williams, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
