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Palmer Leslie Stewart Lieut

Catalogue reference: SKR/DAT/IP/21062

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SKR/DAT/IP/21062
Title
Palmer Leslie Stewart Lieut
Date
2000-2024
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Surname: Palmer;

Forename(s): Leslie Stewart;

Initials: LS;

Rank: Lieut;

Born in: Odiham;

Previous Battalion: 4 of;

Previous Regiment: Dorset Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 13-Mar-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 117 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 20-Sep-1917;

Other Data: born 10/10/1891 at Odiham, Hants. Educ: Sherborne. Occ: Brewer. Father: John Cleeves Palmer (Brewer) 29 South St, Bridport. Mother: Eliza Emma (nee King)
Medical Board, Reading War Hospital 25/11/1916. 2/Lt 3/4 Dorset Regt att 118 MGC, aged 24. Hernia - leave from 25/11/1916. Sent from France owing to left hernia with undescended testes. Radical cure performed 26/10/1916 - 6 weeks leave. To England 24/10/1916 on "St David". Leave to 6/1/1917 No 1 War Hosp, Reading. Address: 82 Hatfield Rd, Ipswich
Estate: gross value £272/12/9d;

Other Notes: PALMER, Lieutenant, LESLIE STUART, 4th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 20th September 1917. Age 26. Son of Mr. J. C. Palmer, of 29, South St., Bridport, Dorset. XXI. J. 2. Hooge Crater Cemetery - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.;

Related National Archives files: WO374/52012:;

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
Language
English
Creator(s)
Graham Sacker
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