John William Arthur Palmer
a box maker in the cigar trade in the 1911 census.
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John known as Jack was born in 1896 in Nottingham and was the son of Arthur a drapers porter and window cleaner and Frances Elizabeth Palmer née Hiron of 10 Bloom Square Ilkeston Road New Radford Nottingham.
His father was born in 1862 in Leicester and his mother Frances Elizabeth Hiron was born in 1860 in Littlewood, Gloucestershire they were married in 1892 in Nottingham and had a further child a daughter Edith Minnie b1894 Nottingham.
In the 1901 census the family are living at 7 Brewsters Place, Nottingham.
In the 1911 census they are living at 10 Broom Square, Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham and are shown as Arthur 51 years a window cleaner he is living with his wife Frances 52 yrs and their 2 children Edith Minnie 17 yrs an errand girl in the tea trade and John William Arthur 15 yrs a box maker in the cigar trade.
Private Jack Palmer enlisted in Nottingham and served with the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment (Welbeck Rangers).
Jack was killed in action on 31 December 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Panel 99 to 102).
CWGC Additional information: Son of Arthur and Frances E. Palmer, of 10, Bloom Square, Ilkeston Rd., New Radford, Nottingham.
Nottingham Evening Post, 'Roll of Honour', 19 January 1918: 'Palmer. Killed in action, December 31st, 1917. Pte. Jack Palmer, Sherwood Foresters, aged 21. Deeply mourned by his sorrowing mother, father, & sister Minnie.'
Above courtesy Jim Grundy facbook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918
John William Arthur Palmer
Photograph is of John William Arthur Palmer in uniform and is courtesy of his grand niece Yvonne Gribby.
John William Arthur Palmer
Photograph shows writing on reverse of the above postcard, written by his sister and is courtesy of Yvonne Gribby