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Private

Richard Plumb

Service Number 61121
Military Unit 16th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 21 Sep 1917 (40 Years Old)
Place of Birth Lambley Nottinghamshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies In 1911 he was a general farm labourer.
Family History

Richard was the son of Job and Amy Plumb nee Burton. Both Job and Amy were born in Lambley and were married on 29 November 1875 at Lambley Holy Trinity (O/N/D Basford). They had four children: John b. abt 1876, Richard b. 1877 (J/A/S Basford) bap. 31 March 1878 (Richard Barrowcliffe) Lambley Holy Trinity, Emma b. 2 November 1879 (O/N/D Basford) bap. 28 March 1897 Lambley Holy Trinity, and Samuel b. 29 March 1891 (A/M/J Basford) bap. 24 September 1899 Lambley Holy Trinity. In 1881 Job (31) a farm labourer and Amy (27) a seamstress, were living on Main Street, Lambley, with their three children John (5), Richard (3) and Emma (1). They were still living on Main Street in 1891 and now had four children; their youngest son, Samuel, was unnamed at the time of the census. Their eldest son John died aged 19 in 1895 (O/N/D Nottingham). In 1901 the family was living on Green Lane, Lambley. Job (50) and Richard (23) were general labourers, Amy (46) and Emma (21) were hosiery seamstresses while Samuel (10) was still at school. Job, a general farm labourer, and Amy were still living on Green Lane, Lambley, in 1911. In the household on the night of the census were their son Richard (32) single a general farm labourer and their grandson Richard (8, b. 15 December 1902 birth registered 1903 J/F/M Basford). Emma had married Harry Rogerson (b. 22 November 1882, Tottenham London) in 1909 (J/F/M Basford). In 1911 Harry, a coal miner hewer, and Emma were living on Green Lane, Lambley, with their son Samuel Henry Lowe (b. 28 July 1910). In 1939 at the time the England & Wales Register was compiled they were living at 3 Canal Houses, Spring Lane (?Lambley). Harry was a farm labourer. Three children were in the home: Samuel, a landworker, Ronald (b. 25 June 1912) a pit head worker, and Maggie (b. 22 May 1915) an unpaid domestic help. Emma died in 1940 (J/A/S Basford) aged 60. Samuel had married Annie Mary Taylor in 1910 (A/M/J Basford). In 1911 Samuel, a coal miner hewer, and Annie were living on Green Lane, Lambley, with their son William Herbert (birth registered 1911 J/F/M Basford). They probably had another son, Samuel E. in 1918. Samuel snr. may have died in 1949 (J/F/M Newark). Richard's father Job died in 1915 (J/A/S Basford) aged 64 and his mother Amy in 1930 (J/A/S Basford) aged 76. Job and Amy's grandson, Richard, who was living with them in 1911, was living at 5 Marwood Crescent, Carlton, in 1939 with his wife Ada (b. 10 August 1903) and their daughter Marjorie (b. 13 May 1927). He died in 1959 (J/F/M Basford).

Military History

Richard died on 21 September 1917 of wounds received in action and was buried in Godewaersvelde British Cemetery (grave ref: 1.G.4). He qualified for the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Extra Information

Registers of Soldiers’ Effects: His legatee was 'Amy' [mother] Probate: Plumb Richard of Green-lane Lambley Nottinghamshire private in HM Army died 21 September 1917 in France Administration (with Will) Nottingham 18 December to Amy Plumb [mother] widow. Effects £133 17s. 7d. Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Roll of Honour’, 2 October 1917: ‘Plumb. Died of wounds, Private Richard Plumb, Sherwood Foresters, of Lambley,. Peace, perfect peace. Couisin Nellie, Lambley’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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