Early Life :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

France & Flanders covers all the dates and corresponding locations which are outside the official battle nomenclature dates on the Western Front. Therefore the actions in which these men died could be considered 'normal' trench duty - the daily attrition losses which were an everyday fact of duty on the Western Front.

Detail :

Second Lieutenant Roger Lionel Palmer, 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Formerly 11998 Sapper/Corporal, Royal Engineers.

Roger was commissioned to second lieutenant is dated 2nd August 1915, just a few days prior to his death. The notice is given in the London Gazette 11th January, 1916 Page 454 of Issue 29434. It shows that he had since "died of wounds received in action."

The portrait image is from a family collection.

Probate PALMER Roger of 20 Stevenson-street South Shields died 13 August 1915 at the Allied forces base hospital Etaples France Administration (with Will) Durham 1 November to William Palmer miner. Effects £371 19s. 6d.

Masonic :

In 1913, at the time of his initiation into Brownrigg Lodge of Unity, Roger is listed as a 31 year old Corporal of the Royal Engineers, resident at Aldershot. By 1915, the contribution record shows that he had "Died 13th Aug/15."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley