BORN HULL 1890. HUSBAND OF JEAN PALMER AT 11, FRANKLIN TERRACE, GLASGOW STREET, HULL AND 2, GEORGES GROVE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF HERBERT PALMER OF 10, PRETORIA AVENUE, FLINTON STREET, HULL.
BEFORE THE WAR SYDNEY WORKED WITH HIS FATHER ON THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
HE WENT TO FRANCE WITH COLONEL SHAW’S BATTALION AND HAD BEEN WOUNDED THREE TIMES. HE WAS CAPTURED ON THE 27TH MAY 1918 AND DIED OF HIS WOUNDS, ON 11/06/1918, AGED 28. HE IS BURIED IN GERMANY.
HIS BROTHER SGT, JOHN PALMER, EYR, HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR OVER THREE YEARS AND WAS RECOVERING IN ENGLAND WITH A WOUNDED HAND.
HIS DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 16TH OCTOBER 1918.*
First name:
SYDNEY
Regiment:
Military Number:
200313
Rank:
Private
Date Died
11/06/1918
Place died:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Age:
28
