Eric Plant
Australian Army Officer (1890-1950) · Australia · On the map · Died at 60
Major General Eric Clive Pegus Plant, was an officer in the Australian Army who served during the First and Second World Wars. Plant served in the pre-war part-time military from 1908, before joining the permanent forces in 1912.
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Group portrait of 1st Division staff officers at Mena Camp, December 1914. Plant, then a lieutenant, is stood in the back row, fifth from the right
Brigadier General John Gellibrand (wearing a hat) and his staff having breakfast in a shell hole in Sausage Valley, August 1916. Sat on the left, facing the camera, is Eric Plant
Major General Plant (right) with his replacement as General Officer Commanding, New South Wales Lines of Communication, Lieutenant General Berryman, 4 March 1946Awards
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During the First World War, he volunteered for the First Australian Imperial Force and served at Gallipoli in 1915 as the adjutant of an infantry battalion. Later, he served as a staff officer at both brigade and divisional levels on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.