Rank: Private
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Cavalry Regiment
Enlisted: Providence, Rhode Island
Date of birth: 1878
Hometown: Attleboro, Massachusetts
Campaign: Philippine Insurrection
Date of casualty: 2-Feb-1902
Age at death: 23 or 24
Cause of death: Joseph Alphonse Plunkett died from disease.
Location of fatality: Died on board Buford en route from San Francisco to Philippines.
Notes: Repatriated on board Buford. Received in San Francisco May 23, 1902.
Place of interment: Saint Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
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