| Surname: |
Plume |
| Initials/Name: |
Victor Arthur E |
| Country of Service: |
UK |
| Rank: |
Corporal |
| Regiment: |
Essex Regiment |
| Unit: |
‘C’ Company 10th Battalion |
| Service No: |
13346 |
| Age: |
21 |
| Date of Death |
31/10/1918 |
| How died: |
Killed in Action |
| Awards: |
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| Cemetery: |
Honnechy British Cemetery |
| Country: |
France |
| Grave Reference: |
II.B.13/19 |
| Local Memorials: |
Stock and
Stock Catholic Church |
| Address: |
Son of Arthur W. & Elizabeth Plume Stock. Born Stock. |
| CWGC Page: |
Victor Plume |
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(should this link fail, search the
CWGC site) |
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Below from John Westwood |
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| Cherry Tree Cottage,
on the right as you leave the village on the B1007 towards Chelmsford |
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| Victor Plume
was a corporal in the 10th Btn Essex Regiment, who enlisted in Chelmsford,
September 1914 and died in action 31st October 1918, at the age of 21, just 12
days before the Armistice was signed. He took part in the final advance on
Picardy as part of the 50th Division. He is buried in Honnechy British
Cemetery, Honnechy is a village in the Department of the Nord, 8 kilometres
south-west of Le Cateau. Honnechy British Cemetery is north-east of the
village, on the north-west side of the road to Reumont. |
| In 1901, he
was three and lived at Cherrytree Cottage with his father Arthur, mother
Elizabeth and sister Christina aged six. |
| Updated 24.08.2024 |