FRANK CHARLES QUINNEY PALMER

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Born: 1894, St. Helen’s, Ipswich.

Death on or assumed since 23rd March 1918; age 23; KiA. Served 3 years & 126 days.

Residence: 59, Hervey Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: a Gas Fitter with the Ipswich Gas Light Company.

Enlistment Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, date: 18th November 1914; age: 20 years & 1 month; religion: CofE. Signed up for the Duration of the War. Height: 5ft & 6 ins.

Date of Entry Therein: 7th October 1915 – Balkans.

Service:

Home: 18^th November 1914 – 22^nd September 1915

Mediterranean Expeditionary Force: 23^rd September 1915 – 8^th November 1915

Home: 9^th November 1915 – 26^th August 1916 – embarked from Folkestone.

France: disembarked from Boulogne – 27^th August 1916 – 9^th July 1917

British Expeditionary Force: 10^th July 1917 – 23^rd March 1918.

Admitted to the 3^rd East Anglian Field Ambulance – Enteritis at Anzac – 22^nd October 1915.

Transferred from the 16^th Casualty Clearing Station from Anzac to Murdos – 23^rd October 1915

Invalided To England from Murdos on H.S. ‘ Formosa’ – 23^rd October 1915.

Transferred to the 4^th Reserve Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment.

Posted to the 7^th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment – 7^th September 1916.

Wounded in the Field: Gun Shot Wound to the neck – 28th September 1916.

Admitted to the 3^rd Canadian General Hospital – 30^th September 1916.

Admitted to the 7^th Canadian Camp – 16^th October 1916.

Discharged to the 3^rd Large Rest Camp – 18^th October 1916.

24^th General Hospital – Etaples – Dysentery – transferred to England via hospital ship – 23^rd November 1916.

Shoreham by Sea – 15^th March 1917 – 21^st March 1917 – Dysentery.

Offence:

Halton Camp – 12^th August 1916 – Absent from 6 a.m. Roll Call – 2 days confined to camp.

Rank: Private; Service Number: G/18051

Regiment: Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 10th Battalion.

Formerly 1743, Suffolk Yeomanry.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War & 1915 Star.

Memorial Reference:

Bay 7,

Arras Memorial,

Arras,

France.

Relatives Notified and Address: Son of Charles and Elizabeth Palmer, of 59, Hervey Street, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1901   16, Alexandra Road, Ipswich.

Frank was 6 years old and living with his parents.

Charles Palmer, 30, an Iron Driller; born Ipswich.

Elizabeth Louisa Palmer (nee Bugg) , 32; born Colchester, Essex.

1911   24, Alexandra Road, Ipswich.

Frank was 16 years old and a Gas Fitter & Plumber. He was living with his parents & sister.

Charles, 40, a Machinist Iron Driller – Agricultural Implement Works.

Elizabeth, 42.

Edith Florrie Palmer, 7, born St. Helen’s, Ipswich.

Mr. Charles Palmer received his son’s 1915 Star on the 9th February 1921, and his British War and Victory Medal on the 28th September 1921.

Soldiers’ Effects to Charles Palmer – father.

Frank is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, and at St. Michael’s Church, Ipswich

Ipswich Gas Light Company.

Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 10th Battalion