Name
Edward William Pallett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/05/1919
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12058
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
North East Grave 656
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
R.I.P.
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
His home was 7, St. Michael's Mount, Hitchin. His wife’s name was Ethel.
Wartime Service
The ‘National Roll’ has an account that differs from the information shown above. It states that he was in the 6th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment having volunteered in August 1914 and that he went to France in 1915.
He may have been transferred between Regiments after having been wounded. He fought at Ypres, on the Somme, at Arras, Albert and Cambrai and was twice wounded in action and eventually died of his injuries.
His Regimental Number was 12058. He died from pneumonia and was buried in Grave NE 656 in Hitchin Cemetery on the 26th May 1919. His Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery stone bears the additional inscription "R.I.P.".
Additional Information
Ethel remarried to become Mrs Allum of 380, Icknield Way, Letchworth, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
