PLUMLEY, Reginald Augustus Harry

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Warrant Engineer
HMS Hood - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Reginald was born on the 27th of February 1905 in Newport to Arthur & Sarah Maria (nee DOWNER) PLUMLEY of 81 High Street in Newport. In 1932 at St. Thomas’ Church Newport, he married Florence Ivy APPLETON & they lived in Carisbrooke.

On the 24th of May 1941 Hood intercepted Bismarck & her consort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, in the Denmark Strait between Greenland & Iceland. A fierce gun battle took place, The Hood was badly damaged & sank stern first with 1,418 men aboard, only three men survived.

Reginald, aged 36, was one of those lost; his body was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to those Lost at Sea together with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Reginald is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.