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VC775   Frederick William Palmer

Name   Frederick William Palmer   No.   731   

VC Issue No.   775   Awards   VC   MM

Regiment   Royal Fusiliers, 22nd Battalion, A Company

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won   Lance Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Second Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Hammersmith, London, England

Place Of Death   Lymington Hospital, Hampshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   All Saints Parish Churchyard, Hordle, Hampshire, England

Cremated   Bournemouth Crematorium, Strouden Avenue, Dorset, England

Date Buried/Cremated   14 September 1955

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Family grave

Gazetted   3 April 1917

VC Presented   2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Family Headstone, All Saints Parish Churchyard, Hordle, Hampshire, England

By The Way…

He flew in the Battle of Britain and achieved the rank of Wing Commander

VC Held By

Royal Fusiliers Museum

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BORN   11 November 1891

DIED   10 September 1955   AGE   63

VC Won   16-17 February 1917   AGE  25

Place VC Won   North of Courcelette, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

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