Alexander Plummer was the youngest of six Chailey brothers and one of three killed in the First World War.
He was born in 1886, his birth being registered in the June quarter at Lewes. He appears on the 1891 census, living with his family at South Street
Ten years later, most of the family is still living at South Street
Clement Plummer Martin, oldest of the Plummer children, was married (1896) with two children, living at 45 Church Street Brighton and working as brewer’s labourer. Ebenezer Plummer had moved out of the family home and was living at 77 South Common with his wife Edith Mary (nee Jenner) and her 88 year old grandfather John Jenner. Fifteen year old Alexander was still in Chailey but not at South Street
