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Sidney James Palmer

Private

Service No. S/6448

Age Unknown

Died on 7 November 1914

The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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James and Joanna Smith

Gone but not forgotten. With gratitude, blood of your blood.

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Joanna Smith

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember you.

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Sidney O valiant heart to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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James and Joanna Smith

Sidney died near Ypres on the 7th of November 1914, aged 20. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.

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Sidney was born in 1894 in Bermondsey, the son of Ellen and William Easton Palmer and the youngest of seven children. When Sidney was just a...

Joanna Smith

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Sidney, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

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