Service Number
11th/0186
Rank
Corporal
Firstname
John William
Lastname
Palmer
Battalion
11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 7 September 1914 at Central Recruiting Office City Hall Hull – Medal Index Card entered Egypt 23 December 1915 with 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Initial training in Hull at the Cricket Ground Anlaby Road and on 18 January 1915 to Ousthorpe Camp Pocklington. In May 1915 the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment joined the 92nd Infantry Brigade of the 31st Division and moved for Divisional training to Penkridge Bank Camp near Rugeley, 18 June 1915 on to South Camp Ripon and then to No 2 camp Hurdcott near Fovant Salisbury – Entered Marseilles France 8 March 1916 – Arrived Bertrancourt on the Somme 2 April 1916 -Transferred Class Z Army Reserve – Documents Available

Enlisted
Hull