Driver David L Plowman

Driver David L Plowman served with 12 Sqn, 1 DIV, RCT.

On 19th October 1968 he was the driver of a 3 ton lorry carrying 10 PARA and attached personnel on their annual training was hit by a train on a level crossing in Germany.  Four soldiers were killed including Driver Plowman. More details of this tragic incident are available here.

The following is an extract from The Waggoner (the RCT Journal) in 1969:  'It is with sorrow that we report the tragic death of Dvr Plowman whose vehicle collided with a goods train at an unmanned and unlit level crossing, at night and in fog. Dvr Plowman was buried with full military honours at The British Military Cemetery, Hannover...Dvr Plowman leaves behind a widow and two children.'

Driver Plowman is buried in Limmer Cemetery, Hanover, Germany, section 13, row 13, grave 5.

All the names of those killed are to be found listed together chronologically on the main Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, but with no indication that they were killed in the same incident, and the two members of 10 PARA are listed on the postwar 10 PARA memorial at Somerby. 

Information kindly supplied by Col John Power QVRM TD