Name
Arthur Plumb
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/04/1918
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
287012
Essex Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WEST HAM CEMETERY
Screen Wall 122512E.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Essendon Village Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church, Memorial, Essendon, West Ham Cemetery, Essex
Pre War
Arthur was born in 1874, in Essendon, Herts. The son of George Plumb and Mary Ann Plumb (nee Gamblin). He was Baptised on the 17th May 1874, in Essendon, Herts. One of 4 children.
The 1881 Census records Arthur aged 6, at school, living with his parents, brother William 14, Sisters Emma 12 and Edith 1, at Bedwell Lodge Cottages, Essendon, Herts.
Arthur signed his Attestation papers for the Militia on the 16th March 1891, with the service number 2125. His papers show he was promoted to Corporal in May 1892; and he attended all the annual training camps from 1891 to 1896. In 1893, he is recorded as a Private. June 1894 shows his in the Militia Reserve. May 1896 he reenlists into the Militia. And in May 1897 he is found unfit for service and discharged.
1891 Census records Arthur aged 18, in the Militia and lodging at 22 The Folly, St John, Hertford, Herts. With 4 other Militiamen.
Arthur married his first wife Margaret Alice Stevens on the 1st August 1897 in the Parish of St Philips, Stepney, London. They had four children, Margaret born in Stepney, 1898, Lucy born in Mile End, 1900, Edith born in Stepney, 1903, (Edith died in 1904) and Isabella born in Shoreditch, 1906.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 26 married with two daughters Margaret 3 and Lucy 6 months living at 25 Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, London. His occupation is a General Carman. Arthur’s wife Margaret died in April 1909, in Stepney, London.
1911 Census no details found for Arthur, but his three children are shown as visitors staying at 14 Vanston Place, Fulham. (Possible with their aunt). Arthur married his second wife Annie Smith in West Ham, London, in 1911.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Stratford, London. Initially with the Essex Regiment, service number 21298. He was transferred to the labour Corps; with the service number 287012 (possibly due to his age he would have been in his 40’s.
Arthur died on the 3rd April 1918, in the Cliff Military Hospital, Felixstowe, Suffolk, and is buried in West Ham Cemetery, London.
Additional Information
His headstone reads: “Husband of A. Plumb, of 63 Peter Street, Canning Town”.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Sue and Colin Rees.
