Lieutenant Acting Captain, 3rd Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in action 19th May 1917. Aged 19. Born Scotland 1898. Resident at Holwell Court Essendon. Son of Sir Wilfrid Emilius (Fifth Baronet of Maxwelton, Dumphriesshire) and Marian Isabel, of 14 Hyde Park Street, London W2. Buried in Roclin Court Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row C. Grave 3. Also commemorated on Moniaive Memorial, Dumfriesshire.

Private 14577, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 3rd May 1917. Born 1887, in Little Berkhampstead, enlisted Hertford. Son of the late Thomas and Jane of Stoney Yard Essendon. No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 5.

Private 287012, Labour Corps formerly 21298, Essex Regiment. Died on service in United Kingdom 3 April 1918. Born St. John's Wood, Middlesex, resident Poplar, Essex, enlisted Startford, Essex. Husband of A. Plumb, of 63, Peter St., Canning Town. Buried in West Ham Cemetery, Essex. Screen Wall. 122512 E.

Arthur was born in 1874, in Essendon, Herts, the son of George Plumb and Mary Ann Plumb (née Gamblin). He was baptised on the 17th May 1874, in Essendon. One of four children. He was married twice, firstly to Margaret Alice Stevens, who died in 1909 and they had four children, then to Annie Smith in West Ham, London, in 1911. From 1891 to 1894 he served in the militia for the first time and then in May 1896 for another year.

The 1881 Census records Arthur aged 6, at school, living with his parents, brother William 14, sisters Emma (Emily) 12 and Edith 1, at Bedwell Lodge Cottages, Essendon. The 1891 Census records Arthur aged 18, in the Militia and lodging at 22 The Folly, St John, Hertford, with 4 other Militiamen, one of whom was Essendon man Robert Lawman.

Arthur signed his attestation papers for the Militia on the 16th March 1891, with the service number 2125. His papers show he was promoted to Corporal in May 1892; and he attended all the annual training camps from 1891 to 1896. In 1893, he is recorded as a Private. By June 1894 he was in the Militia Reserve and in May 1896 he re-enlisted into the Militia, but by May 1897 he was unfit for service and discharged.

Arthur married his first wife Margaret Alice Stevens on the 1st August 1897 in the Parish of St Philip, Stepney, London. Margaret was born in Stepney in 1898. They had four children, Lucy born in Mile End, 1900, Edith born in Stepney, 1903, (Edith died in 1904) and Isabella born in Shoreditch, 1906. The 1901 Census recorded Arthur, aged 26, as married with two daughters Margaret 3 and Lucy 6 months and living at 25 Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, London. His occupation was a general carman.

His wife Margaret died in April 1909, in Stepney. He has not been found in the 1911 Census, but his 3 children were visitors staying at 14 Vanston Place, Fulham (possibly with their aunt). Arthur married his second wife Annie Smith in West Ham, London, in 1911. Arthur enlisted in Stratford, London, initially with the Essex Regiment, service number 21298, but was later transferred to the Labour Corps; with the service number 287012. Given his previous service history this may have been due to a general poor level of fitness or he may have been ill or wounded. Arthur died on the 3rd April 1918, in the Cliff Military Hospital, Felixstowe, Suffolk, and is buried in West Ham Cemetery, London.

Private 3511, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 19th January 1915. Aged 21. Buried inLoker Churchyard, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row E. Grave 1.

David was born in 1894 in Hatfield, Herts, Brother to Arthur and the son of George and Mary Ann. He was baptised on the 7th April 1894 in the Parish of Bishops Hatfield, Herts. The 1901 census shows David age 7 years living with his parents and 4 brothers in Essendon, Herts. The 1911 census shows David age 17 as living with his widowed Mother and 2 brothers in Essendon, Herts. His occupation is farm labourer.

David was in the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He disembarked with his Battalion at Le Harve, France. On the 14th August 1914. He died of his wounds on the 19th January 1915 and is buried in Loker (formally Locre) Churchyard in Belgium. The Essendon Parish Magazine of March 1915 reads: “Mrs Scales received news from the War office that her son Pte David Scales of Northumberland Fusiliers had died from wounds to his left thigh and fractured forearm at Locre, France. David was one of four brothers serving in the Army. He went out with the Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914, and has been in the thick of the fighting from the outset. His grandmother had several letters from him just before he was killed. David was a member of the Essendon Scout Group and had done very well”.