He died on 29 November 1944 during the 8th Army's drive northward through Italy, aged 29, and was buried at the Cesena War Cemetery, Italy. Cesena is just to the north of the Appennine mountains.

The CWGC site records that he was the son of Frank and Maud Pluck and the husband of Dorothy Pluck of Bridlington, Yorkshire.

More information can be found in Tree1003; he is PL2819.