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Private LEONARD HENRY PALMER

Service Number: 6091538
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

1/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANZEGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 7.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Henry and Dorothy Rose Palmer, of Bermondsey, London. His brother George James Palmer also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription BLEEDING HEARTS ALONE CAN TELL. EARTH HAS LOST HIM HEAVEN HAS GAINED HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

ANZEGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 19
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