- SURNAME
Palmer
- FORENAME
Ernest Leonard (Dick)
- UNIT
No 2 SBS (C Group)
- RANK
Corporal
- NUMBER
6216113
- DATE OF DEATH
8th February 1945
- AGE
- GRAVESITE
Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar 3.F.16
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Ulster Rifles
born 19.06.1922, Lambeth, London SW
resided London SW
son of Herbert Joseph and Grace Emma Palmer
husband of Georgina V.Palmer,4 Alders Cottages, Station Road, Brixton, London (postwar Mitcham, Surrey) (1 son)
fatally wounded by RN motor launch which mistook SBS patrol for Japanese (Op.Corona)
"SBS SAS"(CWGC) - error
DATE OF DEATH:
08-Feb-1945WEB LINKS:
http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/WW2/sbs/palmer/https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/3262858
FINDAGRAVE:
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