PLANT Levi Charles

Appears on the memorial as ‘Missing’

The birth of Levi Charles Plant is registered in the June Quarter 1894 under the Stourbridge Registration District.

1901 Census
10 Griffith’s Yard, Birmingham St, St John’s, Stourbridge
William Plant, head, age 49, General Railway Labourer, born Brierley Hill, Staffordshire
Mary A. Plant, wife, age 48, Charwoman, born Dudley, Worcestershire
Edith Plant, daughter, age 19, Carrier Off at Brick Yard, born Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Celia Plant, daughter, age 16, Brickyard Labourer, born Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Ernest J. Plant, son, age 10, born Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Levi C. Plant, son, age 6, born Stourbridge, Worcestershire

Levi Charles Plant enlisted as Private 13181 in the Royal Field Artillery on 2nd September 1914 at Preston. On his attestation paper he gave his place of birth as Stourbridge, Worcestershire, his age as 20 years and 5 months and his occupation as a Sheet Worker. Levi was 5 feet 8 inches tall, his next of kin was his sister, Mrs Robbins, 2 St Marys St., Griffiths Town, Newport, Monmouthshire. On 5th April 1915 he received 3 days confined to barracks for ‘Irregular Conduct on parade 5.4.15.’ On 17th July 1915 Levi was posted to France to join the British Expeditionary Force where he received 7 days Field Punishment No 1 for Neglect of Duty whilst on Guard. On 11th August 1917 he was admitted to No 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Treport, France and then shipped back to England where he was admitted to Berrington War Hospital, Shrewsbury on 15th August 1917 with a shrapnel wound to the left side of his neck. After 56 days in the hospital he was discharged on 10th October 1917. Having returned to France he was reprimanded in March 1918 for neglect of duty and in September 1918 he was reverted back to a gunner following a charge of neglect of duty in that he reported all horses fed when such was not the case. In April 1919 he received Field Punishment No 2 for overstaying his leave by 4 days. Levi Plant was transferred to the Army Reserve on 31st July 1919.

The death of Levi C. Plant, aged 64, is registered in the September Quarter 1958 under the Pontypool Registration District.