No.7912234, Trooper, Stanley PLUMB
Aged 27
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Stanley Plumb was born in Fordham on 10th October 1914 (Newmarket Q4-1914 3B:783), baptised in Soham on 25th November 1914, son of James and Sarah Elizabeth PLUMB
(née PEACHEY) of The Block Farm, Fordham.
He married Beatrice May BROOKS (Cambridge Q1-1939 3B:795). Probate gave administration to his widow at Jubilee Drive, Langham, Rutland. In the 1939 register he was chief clerk at Ranksborough Farm, living at Langham Jubilee Drive, Rutland with his wife Beatrice M [23-5-1915] and Albert Victor KERWOOD [12-3-1930] a scholar (perhaps an evacuee). At Broad Piece, Soham were his father James[19-2-1877] a small farmer; his mother Sarah E [17-6-1879]; brothers Reginald [23-1-1907] LNER Railway length man and Bernard [5-8-1922] brickyard worker. There is one closed record. |
| After Rommel's advance in North Africa and the battle at Sidi Rezegh the 7th Queen's Own Hussars had only two tanks left. Refitted at Abassia, they then embarked in January 1942 for Burma, as part of the 7th Armoured Brigade. Going straight to Pegu they had to use their tanks to smash road blocks and cover the withdrawal. Field Marshal Alexander said "Without them we would never have got the Army out of Burma, no praise can be too high for them" |
Newspaper report on 9th March 1942, but Rangoon was evacuated and then occupied by the Japanese (7th March) by the time this was printed
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