The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A V Palmer

Inscription -

"A SILENT THOUGHT

A SECRET TEAR

KEEPS HIS MEMORY EVER DEAR"

Private Albert Valentine PALMER, 201106, (TF/3560), 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Egypt, 22nd September 1918, age 37.

Born Sevenoaks, Kent, son of Alfred & Jane Palmer, of 4, Myrtle Cottages, Chipstead Lane, Riverhead, Kent.

1911 Census - Myrtle Cottages, Chipstead Lane, Riverhead, Kent - Jane Palmer, head, age 63, widow, married 45 years, 7 children, 6 still alive, born Shoreham?, Kent; Albert Palmer, son, age 29, single, labourer, leather factor, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge Kent. Resided Sevenoaks, Kent.

9th August 1915, posted to Balkans Theatre of War.

Buried at Ramleh War Cemetery, G. 60., Israel.

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