Notes
The Roll lists his address as 20 Queen's Walk, Old Fletton. It records his rank as Driver, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Saddler E Plumb, regimental number TS/5445, died aged 37 on 15/12/1916 serving in 20th Reserve Park of the Army Service Corps, and is buried in grave I.R.42 of Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of the late John and Jane Plumb, and that he was born in Peterborough. Edmund's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1878. On the 1881 and 1891 census he was living with his parents John and Jane in Park Street, Fletton. On the 1911 census he was living with his widowed mother Jane at 18 Park Street, London Road, Fletton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Saddler Edmund Plumb died in the field on 15/12/1916; his legatees were his siblings. His Army service file records that he was living at 20 Queen's Road, Fletton when he enlisted on 2/3/1915 in the Army Service Corps, stating he had previously served for five years in the 11th and 13th Hussars. He was sent to the Mediterranean on 21/3/1915, and posted to France on 7/4/1916. He was serving as a Saddler in the Army Service Corps when he was killed by a rifle bullet on 15/12/1916. The Court of Enquiry into the incident, a copy of which is in his Army file, heard that Edmund had returned from 10 days leave in England on the morning of 15/12/1916, and had arrived back at camp at about 1:30 am. At 10:50 am the same day an explosion had been heard in the saddlers' shop, which was discovered to have been a rifle shot. From the position of the rifle and the nature of the wound, the Enquiry concluded that Edmund had committed suicide).