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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Arthur Samuel Plumb
British Army 8th Service Battalion The Rifle Brigade Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:81, Southwold Road, Clapton, London
(d.30th Oct 1915)
Arthur was a volunteer Rifleman in an Infantry Unit the 8th Service Battalion the Rifle Brigade, The Kings Royal Rifle Corps (The Prince Consorts Own), formed as part of the 'First New Army' Kitchener's Volunteers or K1 (The first 100,000 volunteers), at Winchester 21st August 1914. Attached to the 41st Brigade a.k.a. the 14th Light Division. they were deemed ready for action and arrived in France in May 1915 (The 2nd Battle of Ypres ended on 24th May 1915. The recruits could not join the front because of a shortage of rifle and artillery ammunition).
Arthur's division fought at Hooge on the 19th July 1915, 30th July 1915 and on the 9th August 1915, those who survived lived to fight again at Bellewaarde 25th and 26th September 1915. Arthur died on October 30th 1915 and is buried in a double grave at Le Treport Military Cemetery, Plot 1, Row M, Grave 3B.
Arthur was 30 years old when he died and left a wife Edith aged 33 and 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls one of whom was named May Plumb aged 9 years. May Plumb's eldest child Edward (Ted) Noble was one of the glider born Ox & Bucks who took part in the successful coup de main at Pegasus Bridge, Normandy in the early hours of D-Day in 1944
I'd be interested to hear from anyone with photo's or information of Arthur's unit.
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