Name
Thomas Leonard Plumb
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/04/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/14598
King's Royal Rifle Corps
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Shenley Village Memorial,
Not on the Shenleybury memorial*1
Pre War
Son of Alfred Ernest and Mary Plumb, of Beeches Garage, Shenley, Herts. and brother of Ernest Louis and James Victor Plumb.
Census: 1901 Census, living at The Hyde with parents and 1911 Census, living at Oakley Cottages, Shenley with parents and brother James Victor Letch. Occupation Bakers boy.
Officially recorded as born Hendon, Middx and living in Shenley, Herts when he enlisted in Kilburn.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 12 Jul 1915 in Kilburn. Posted to BEF, France on 14 Dec 1915.
29 Aug 1916 admitted to No. 34 Casualty Clearing Station with a wound to left eye, discharged from same on 31 Aug 1916.
Additional Information
Back pay and gratuities £11 7s 3d paid to mother.
Brother of Ernest Louis and James Victor Plumb who also served and fell in France.
Thomas and his brothers, James and Ernest 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
Jonty Wild
