PALMER, Stanley Milton
| Service Number: | WX5627 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 27 July 1911 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Perth City Salvation Army Fortress WW2 Roll of Honor |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX5627, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Sep 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX5627, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Johnson
Brothers Herbert (Bluey) and Mick Palmer were two of four stretcher bearers from the band of the 2/16th Battalion who participated in the frontal attack on El Aqita on the morning of 6 July 1941 in what became known as the Battle of Damour in Lebanon. Mick recalled that Bluey just said “Ahh!” then “Oh Mick, I’m dead.” Mick said that Bluey had “Got mortar shrapnel through his back, cutting his aorta. He was gone in six seconds.” Sergeant Bluey Palmer was one of the Battalion’s 27 killed and 74 wounded on that day.
Source: “Cuppa Tea, Digger? Salvos Serving in World War Two” by Lindsay Cox, 2020, page 88.