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William Collingwood Plumbe

Service Number 39862
Military Unit 14th battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 13 Nov 1918 (32 Years Old)
Place of Birth Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies Manager of Sherwood Chemical Works Co, and managing director of the family firm, Plumbe & Richardson. Attended Queen Elizabeth School 11/05/1895 to August 1903. He was the choir leader and Sunday School superintendent (morning) at Mansfield West Gate Congregational Church; he resigned in early 1917 as he had been called up.
Family History

Wife: Marion, nee Cooper married 1911. Children: Joan, born 1913, Kenneth, born 1914 and Barbara, born 1917. They lived at Linden House, Mansfield. William left £608 10s. 1d. to Marion in his will.

Military History

1/5th Bn Gloucestershire Regiment. Secondary regiment Yorkshire Regiment (formerly 34233 9th Bn). Enlisted March 1917. Died at Edinburgh War Hospital and buried Mansfield (Nottingham Road) Cemetery.

Extra Information

Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser 21/11/1918 Funeral at Mansfield Cemetery, left a widow and 3 children.

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