The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Company Sergeant Major A W Palmer

Company Serjeant Major Askew William PALMER, 200090, (TF/991) 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds , Egypt, 22nd April 1917, age 29.

Born Ightham Kent, son of Friend William & Ann Palmer of The Willows, Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent.

16th October 1887, Ightham, Kent, christening of Askew William Palmer, son of Friend William & Ann Palmer.

1911 Census - Corwen, South ParkGranville Road, Sevenoaks, Kent - Askew William Palmer, boarder, age 23, single, Civil Servant, Sorting Clerk, worker, born Ightham, Kent.

Enlisted Sevenoaks Kent.

9th August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

21st June 1917, Probate - Askew William Palmer, of 9 Denmark Road, Kilburn, Middlesex, Company Serjeant Major His Majestys Army died 22nd April 1917, in Egypt. Administration (with Will), London 21st June to Alice Mabel Palmer, spinster. Effects £471.

Buried in the Deir El Belah War Cemetery, Gaza Strip, Israel, grave A 132. Commemorated on the Ightham War Memorial, brass plaque inside St Peters Church, Fen Pond Road, Ightham, Kent. / Sevenoaks War Memorial.

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