THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO LANCE SERGEANT FREDERICK PALMER HAVE BEEN PRESENTED ON A PERMANENT LOAN TO THE ROYAL FUSILIERS MUSEUM, LONDON. |
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01 June 2006 |
On Thursday, 1st June 2006, a ceremony took place at the Royal Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London, where the Victoria Cross and campaign medals awarded to Lance Sergeant Frederick Palmer were placed on permanent loan to the regimental museum of the Royal Fusiliers by members of the Palmer family.
For the award of the Victoria Cross. [ London Gazette, 3 April 1917 ], Near Courcelette, France, 17 February 1917, Lance Sergeant Frederick William Palmer, 22nd Bn, Royal Fusiliers ( City of London Regiment )
For most conspicuous bravery, control and determination.
Frederick Palmer was invested with his Victoria Cross, and presented with his Military Medal, by King George V in Hyde Park, London, on the 2nd June 1917.
For the award of the Military Medal.
[ London Gazette, 19 February 1917 ], Redan Ridge, France, 13th - 15th November 1916, Lance Sergeant Frederick William Palmer, 22nd Bn, Royal Fusiliers ( City of London Regiment )
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After demobilization Palmer lived in Singapore and became a director of several companies. In 1942 the family home was destroyed when Singapore fell to the Japanese; his Chinese wife, a magistrate's daughter who had worked as a nurse in Singapore, and the Palmer's two young children were driven north and placed in a refugee camp for four years. During this time Palmer had no news of them, but when the war was over the family was reunited and they moved to Hordle in Hampshire. Frederick Palmer died in Lymington Hospital on 10th September 1955, aged 63, was cremated at Bournemouth Crematorium, and his ashes buried in All Saints' Churchyard, Hordle. |
Iain Stewart, 01 June 2006