Basic Details
Surname
Palmer
Forenames
Frederick George
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
This is one of seven similar crosses in the church arranged below the war memorial and Roll of Honour. In all cases the cross beam has been covered in paper before painting. Private Fred Palmer first served in 1/1 Suffolk Yeomanry, mobilised to Gallipoli in early October 1915. He survived the Gallipoli campaign and later transferred to the Labour Corps as a Lance Corporal, possibly because of wounds received or disease contracted at Gallipoli. His record shows he died, cause unspecified, on December 17th 1918 in Egypt aged 27. He is buried at the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. There is no evidence so far that the Locks or Lockes commemorated on the crosses were brothers.
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Service (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of burial
Egypt
Town of burial
Cairo
Cemetery
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
Year of death
1918
Month of death
December
Day of death
17
Age at death
27