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WILLIAM GARROD PALMER
BORN HULL 22/01/1886. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS JOSEPH PALMER (1851-1921) & ANN JANE PEARSON (1854-1900), OF 12, RIPON STREET, HULL (1891 CENSUS); 5, WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) & 66, BURLINGTON CRESCENT, GOOLE (1911 CENSUS).
SON OF A SHIP BUILDER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND FIVE BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A BOLIER MAKER.
HE MARRIED MARY JANE POLLARD (1887-1944), AT GOOLE, ON 24/12/1905. THEY LIVED AT 67, GEORGE STREET, GOOLE (1911 CENSUS) & 13, PARADISE PLACE, GOOLE. THEY HAD A SON AND A DAUGHTER.
HE ENLISTED IN GOOLE. FORMERLY, 19697, KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. TRANSFERRED TO THE 6TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 26/10/1915, AGED 29. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, GALLIPOLI.
HE LEFT A WIDOW, MARY JANE AND SON, SIDNEY. HIS DAUGHTER ANNIE (1911-1916), DIED AGED 5. HIS WIDOW MARRIED A CIVILIAN ON 16/05/1916 AND HER WAR PENSION WAS REDUCED.
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