Notes
The Roll lists his address as 14 Wellington Street. It wrongly records his date of death as 5/4/1915.
(CWGC records that Private A Palmer, regimental number 20540, died on 25/4/1918 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave VI.C.15 at Bouchoir New British Cemetery in France, having been reinterred after the War. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of St John's parish in Peterborough, where he enlisted, and likewise states that he died on 25/4/1918. The Medal Rolls record that he died on 25/4/1918, having first been posted to France on 22/12/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 25/4/1918, and that his widow Maud Chappell was his legatee. Alfred Palmer's marriage to Maud Merryfield had been registered in Peterborough District in 1914. When his death was announced on 25/5/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser Alfred was described as the husband of Mrs Palmer of Wellington Street).