PALMER, Joseph
| Service Number: | 14011 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Motor Transport Company |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 7 July 1964, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-63. 20. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 14011, 2nd Motor Transport Company | |
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| 29 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 14011, 2nd Motor Transport Company | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 14011, 2nd Motor Transport Company |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
59 years ago today, on the 29th July 1964, Private Joseph Palmer, 2nd Australian Motor Transport Company (Reg No-14011), clerk from 35 Perkins Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and Kempster Street (Road), Merewether, N.S.W. and 1/11 Blenheim Street, Randwick, N.S.W., father of four (baby Palmer, still born, 4.4.1934, no death or funeral notice, Marjorie, Vida, Ivan Joseph), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 71. ANGLICAN 1-63. 20.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 18th January 1893 to Joseph and Susan Palmer; husband of Essie Madeleine Palmer nee Carr (married 1923, Merewether, N.S.W., died 9.7.1935, Merewether, N.S.W., age 34, sleeping here), Joe enlisted on the 18th October 1916 at Sydney, N.S.W.
Embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on the 11th May 1917.
Granted leave to France and England from the 22.2.1919 to the 16.3.1919.
Admitted to hospital 1.4.1919 (defective hearing), 13.4.1919 (nasopharyngitis - cough, headache, fever, and body aches), 16.4.1919 (defective hearing).
Joe returned home on the 10th August 1919, being discharged on the 29th October 1919.
Mr. Palmer’s name has been inscribed on the Newcastle Surf Club & Life-Saving Brigade Honor Roll.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Joe’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Many thanks to Tani Mitchell for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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