The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E G Palmer

Photograph by "Philippe DEGROOTE"

Private Ephraim George PALMER, G/30504, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 21st September 1918.

19th June 1897, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire, son of Ephraim & Esther Rebecca Palmer.

1911 Census - Sutton Road, Mepal, near Ely, Cambridgeshire - Ephraim Palmer, head, age 46, married, labourer on farm, yardman, worker, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Esther Rebecca Palmer, wife, age 40, married 20 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Wentworth, Cambridgeshire; Gertrude Jane Palmer, daughter, age 16, single, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Frances May Palmer, daughter, age 14, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Ephraim George Palmer, son, age 13, labourer, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Auther Walter Palmer, son, age 11, school, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Alfred Palmer, son, age 9, school, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Edward Palmer, son, age 6, school, born Sutton, Cambridgeshire; Amy Elizabeth Palmer, daughter, age 2, born Mepal, Cambridgeshire; Beatrice Mary Palmer, daughter, age 9 months, born Mepal, Cambridgeshire.

Enlisted Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Buried at Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, VI. A. 5., Epehy, France. Commemorated Mepal, Cambridgeshire War Memorial.

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