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Private DESMOND JOSEPH JAMES PALMER

Service Number: 5783376
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

15. B. 5.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Adeline Palmer, of Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription YOUR WORK ON EARTH IS DONE BUT YOUR LOVING MEMORY IS EVER WITH US, DEAR SON

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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1773
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