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Personal data

• Name PLUMB
• Initials RJ
• First name RICHARD JOSEPH
• Place of birth Maryborough
• Country Queensland, Australia
• Family Son of William Henry and Ellen Angelina Walsh; three brothers: William Edward, Alfred Joseph and Henry James; Henry James also served but survived;
  Husband of Mary Lucy (nee Hammond), Mary St., Sydney; one son, James Henry.
• Profession Tram conductor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 27 January 1916, RAS Grounds, New South Wales
• Service number 4810A
• Rank Corporal
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 14th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career To France September 1916; appointed Lance Cpl. May 1917; Embarked at Sydney on 13 April 1916

Death

• Wounded Glencorse Wood, 25 September
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the abdomen, at n° 17 CCS
• Date of death 26 September 1917
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - D - 11A

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