Name
Arthur Joseph Palmer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
The Welsh Regiment
25th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Palmer was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Records, however was baptised Arthur Frederick Merry Palmer on 19th March 1893, and was listed as Arthur Joseph Palmer when he married Edith Bennett from 18 Adrian Road, Abbots Langley on 7th June 1919.
He was born in 1893 at Regent’s Park in London, one of three children (two sons and a daughter) of Merry and Florence Palmer. Merry Palmer, a former Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police, worked as a Carpenter at the time of the 1901 Census, when the family lived at 13 Popes Road, Lambeth. In the 1911 Census the family was shown living at a seven room house at 86 Loughborough Road in Brixton, and had taken in two lodgers. At that time Arthur worked as a Chauffeur.
Arthur Palmer was listed in Leavesden Asylum Roll of Honour that was published in the Hertfordshire Advertiser on 17th October 1914. Presumably he had moved to Abbots Langley to work at the Asylum, and in October 1914 the Leavesden Parish Record showed that A.J Palmer had “joined HM Forces, having previously been serving with the Territorial Army” and at the time was employed at the Asylum as an Attendant.
He was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in November 1914 serving with the 10th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. At some point in 1917 Arthur transferred to the 16th Middlesex’s, and before June 1918 was transferred again to the 25th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. Due to the heavy losses of men that the British Army suffered in 1918 many units were combined or absorbed into one another, and on 20th June 1918 the 25th Battalion was absorbed into the 18th Battalion, which landed in France on 29th July 1918.
Arthur Palmer survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 10th & 16th Battalions Middlesex Regiment; 18th Battalion The Welsh Regiment. Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
