Notes
The Roll lists his address as 10 Swan's Place. It misrecrds his 2nd forename as "Jeffrey".
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Herbert Jeffery Palmer, regimental number 43440, died aged 20 on 13/10/1917 serving in 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, and is buried in grave XXI.C.9 at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium. They record him as the son of Emily E Palmer of Peterborough and the late Joseph Palmer. His birth was registered in Peterborough as "Herbert Jeffery Palmer" in 1896. On the 1911 census he was living with his widowed mother at 10 Swan's Place, Peterborough. The Medal Rolls record that he initially served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 993, before transferring to the Bedfordshire Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Emily was his legatee).