He died on 20 July 1943 while serving in North Africa. He is commemorated on the Alamein memorial. He was a member of No 454 RAAF Squadron.

The CWGC site provides no information about his age or family.

However, he has been identified as the son of William Alexander Pluck and Alice Wheel and he can be found on Tree 10 (PL 678).

454 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force

Formed without aircraft in New South Wales on 23 May 1941, 454 Squadron personnel soon sailed for the Middle East, where it was to receive its aircraft. On arrival, however, the squadrons personnel were dispersed to service RAF Halifax and Liberator aircraft.

In September 1942, 454 Squadron received its first Blenheims. However, the unit continued its support role, providing refresher training for Blenheim crews prior to their postings to operational RAF squadrons. Finally in January 1943, 454 Squadron began active operations when it converted to Baltimores and begun anti-submarine and shipping patrols. On one of its first missions, a single Baltimore was attacked by two German fighters. In a surprising turn of events the lumbering bomber shot down one fighter and so badly damaged the other that it broke off the combat. Unfortunately, soon after this event, 454 Squadron was to suffer its most disastrous operation of the War. During a specially requested low level attack against factories and road targets on the island of Crete, six out of eight Baltimores despatched were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, while both surviving aircraft were seriously damaged. In July 1944 RAAF Baltimores shadowed a convoy of three merchant vessels escorted by ten naval vessels. Despite a fighter escort which harried them and shot one Baltimore down, the squadron maintained contact with the convoy until a strike force could be gathered. In the ensuing attack on the convoy, the Baltimores sank one of the merchant ships. After the Allied invasion of Italy, 454 Squadron deployed to Italy and began daylight bombing missions against targets in Italy and Yugoslavia. By January 1945, the squadron had switched to night operations. These missions were particularly hazardous and on one mission, a Baltimore returned to base holed in over one hundred and fifty places, with its starboard engine out of action and the entire crew wounded.

454 Squadron flew its last operational flights on 1 May and disbanded on 14 August 1945.