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The Plumpton Family Memorial in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (All Saints) Cemetery
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Photo © Kilmarnock
of the Find a Grave Website
The Plumpton family memorial in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (All Saints) Cemetery commemorates members of the Plumpton family and includes Lieutenant Robert Plumpton of the Yorkshire Regiment who lost his life in Russia in December 1918.
Below are some further images of the Plumpton family memorial, and we are very grateful to Kilmarnock of the Find a Grave Website for allowing us to use his photos.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Plumpton. 6th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 25 December 1918.
Buried MURMANSK NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.
The following biographical notes on Lieutenant Plumpton are
taken from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Yorkshire Regiment Officers who lost their lives in the First World War;-
"Robert Plumpton initially served as a private soldier in the ranks of
the London Regiment before being commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment.
The 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment were disbanded in mid 1918 and a small
cadre of officers and men proceeded to Mychett Camp at Aldershot. Through
the summer of 1918 the 6th Battalion was reconstituted at Aldershot to form
part of the North Russia Expeditionary Force.
Robert Plumpton joined the battalion at Mychett Camp and on October 16th 1918
sailed from Dundee bound for Murmansk. 2nd Lt Plumpton and the battalion were
then laid up in Kirkwall for two weeks before finally arriving in Murmansk
on November 26th where they were billetted.
In a strange occurrence in the history of the Great War 2nd Lt Robert Plumpton
was murdered on Christmas Day of 1918.
The following is a direct quote from the history of the Green Howards,
“On Christmas Day a tragedy befell the 6th Green Howards, 2nd Lt Robert
Plumpton being found murdered in a ravine close to Murmansk. It was not for
some days that any evidence could be found implicating anybody but on January
14th 1919 a party from “B” company made a raid on certain Russian
quarters and here Robert Plumpton’s watch and stolen government stores
were discovered.
The owner was tried and shot on February 5th 1919”."
The
Plumpton Family Memorial in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (All Saints) Cemetery (2)
Photo © Kilmarnock
of the Find a Grave Website
The Commemorations on the Plumpton Family Memorial include;-
"IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / ROBERT PLUMPTON / DIED JUNE 9TH 1914 / AGED
69 YEARS
AND OF HIS WIFE / ANN PLUMPTON / DIED APRIL 1ST 1903 / AGED 55 YEARS.
ALSO THEIR SECOND SON / ROBERT/ DIED MAY 10TH 1877 / AGED 18
MONTHS.
ALSO THEIR SON ROBERT / SECOND LIEUT 6TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
KILLED IN RUSSIA DECR. 24TH 1918 (SIC) / AGED 34 YEARS
BURIED IN THE BRITISH NAVAL AND MILITARY CEMETERY MURMANSK / NORTH RUSSIA."
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
(All Saints) Cemetery
Photo © Kilmarnock
of the Find a Grave Website
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