Palmer | John Scott | 1140 | Private | District Mounted Rifles
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | District Mounted Rifles |
Palmer | John Walter | | | BSACM Mashonaland 1890 (1) Rhodesia 1896. 1896: Lieut. Salisbury FF. Born in the Peddy District, near Port Alfred, South Africa, and left home as a very young man. He conducted transport for the Bechuanaland Exploration Company from 1888, started the first dairy in Mashonaland, and was a Transport rider in Rhodesia for many years. His date of attestation into the Pioneer Corps is unknown but he was promoted Conductor with effect from 1st June 1890. He subsequently served with the Mashonaland force during the 1896 Rebellion, as Lieutenant with the Salisbury Field Force. He settled at Thornpark Farm, near Salisbury, in 1909, growing maize and raising dairy cattle. He sold the farm in 1927, moving to a house near Salisbury, and died at Port Alfred in April 1931, leaving £5,000 in his will to Rhodesia Children's Home and Emerald Hill Orphanage. He had married in 1896 and had one son, E. R. B. Palmer, who hoisted the Union Flag at the Pioneer's Day Service, Cecil Square, in 1958. A total of only 200 medals were issued for Mashonaland 1890, of which 90 went to the Pioneer Column. BSACM undated (2) Mashonaland 1890, Rhodesia 1896 (Cdr. Palmer, J. W. - Pioneers). DNW June 1999 £980.
Source: BSACM rolls | Pioneer Corps |
Palmer | John William | | | Source: WO100/283 | Mafeking Railway Volunteers |
Palmer | Joseph Aloysius | 208 | Trooper | QSA (3) OFS DoM Tr; KSA (2)
Source: Mafeking Siege Account and Medal Roll | Protectorate Regiment |
Palmer | Joseph Aloysuis | 208 | Trooper | Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Protectorate Regiment |
Palmer | K | | | 2nd Battalion, MI
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Suffolk Regiment |
Palmer | Kenneth George Livingstone | | Private | QSA (1)
Source: List of QSAs with the clasp Defence of Kimberley | Kimberley TG |
Palmer | L | | | 1st Volunteer Company
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Leicestershire Regiment |
Palmer | L | 4917 | Private | QSA (2).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers |
Palmer | L | | Trooper | Natal 1906 (1)
Source: Recipients of the Natal 1906 Medal | Royston's Horse |
Palmer | L | 7766 | Rifleman | 4th Battalion
Demise: Died of disease - enteric fever 13 Jun 1902
Place: Kroonstad
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | (Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade |
Palmer | L | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Cape Town Highlanders |
Palmer | L A | | Trooper | Wounded. Poplar Grove, 8 March 1900
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | New South Wales, 1st Battalion Australian Commonwe |
Palmer | L H | | | Source: QSA and KSA rolls | British South Africa Police |
Palmer | Lawrence Alfred | 1086 | Trooper | Source: OZ-Boer database | New South Wales, 1st Australian Horse |
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