Roydon Ewart Palmer
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 27680
Parents: Thomas and Edith Palmer
Home address: Honey Hill Road, Kingswood, Bristol
Date of birth: 13/03/1899
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 31/10/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Hamburg Cemetery Germany and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial
Age: 19
Further information:
Roydon was born in Kingswood, the eldest child and only son of a bootmaker. He had three younger sisters.
Roydon enlisted in the Dorsetshire Regiment, probably in 1916 and later transferred to the 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regiment. He fought in various actions on the Western Front including the attack on the Messines Ridge on the 7th June. Following the attack, Roydon was listed as missing on the 14th June. He had been taken prisoner of war and died 4 months later in Germany only 11 days before the armistice.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/history-regiments/duke-edinburghs-wiltshire-regiment-1881-1920-wiltshire-regiment-duke-edinburghs-1920-1959