Second Lieutenant Cedric John Plunket

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 05/10/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/08/1917
Age at death: 24
Cemetery: Lone Tree Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: I. D. 20.
Information: Second Lieutenant Cedric John Plunket, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on August 6th, 1917, was the only son of the late Mr. C.J.C. Plunket, of Dublin, and Mrs. Plunket, of 51 West Kensington Mansions, London, and grandson of the late Hon. Patrick Plunket, Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, Dublin. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and prior to the war served for two years in the Honourable Artillery Co., but had to resign in 1913 on account of ill-health and took up farming in Norfolk. When war broke out he enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, and saw active service, being for five months despatch rider. In 1915 he received a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers and again proceeded to the front, where he served until his death.