Name
Ronald Arthur Palmer
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1941
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant.
905761
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
148 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Benghazi War Cemetery
Sp. Mem. 3. B. 8.
Libya
Headstone Inscription
TIME COMES, TIME PASSES, LOVING THOUGHTS OF THEE ARE EVERLASTINGched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 905761 and a Serjeant Pilot. At the time of his death he was attached to 148 Squadron. The Squadron was based at Landing Ground LG 104 about sixty miles east of Mersah Matruh in Egypt and was flying Wellington II bombers.
He is remembered on the Special Memorial ‘C’, Plot 3, Row B, Grave 8 in the Benghazi War Cemetery in Libya. The headstone is inscribed "Buried near this spot" and there is a private inscription "Time comes time passes loving thoughts of thee are everlasting" .
He was the son of Ernest Victor and Annie Palmer of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford
