Ivor Charlie Plaskett

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
6162
Unit at enlistment: 
1st Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
March 10th, 1915
Cemetery: 
Y Farm Military Cemetery - Bois-Grenier, Northern France - J.34
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Hampshire
Birth city: 
Portsmouth
Address at enlistment: 
RR 5 Stratford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
RR 5 Stratford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Operator
Religious denominations: 
Baptist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
20

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Trenches South of Bois Grenier

BX March 27, 1915

Paris Boys Wounded – Names of Two Former Residents of That Town Included in the Casualty List

PARIS, March 27. – The names of two former residents of this town appear in the casualty lists this week.

Ford, Charles Edward

Private C.E. Ford, of Heath, Alta., who died of wounds, lived here a number of years ago, when his father was head miller at the O’Neal Mill here.

Plaskett, Ivor Charlie 

Corp. Ivor Plaskett, who fell in battle, was a member of B. Squadron, 25th Brant Dragoons, but was living in Stratford when war broke out.  He came to Paris to enlist, but there was no place, and he went back to Stratford.  He attended camp with B. Squadron for three years.