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WW2 100 – 16 July 1944 – A leader ‘full of dash and courage’: Major George Tristram Palmer (1915-44) 12th Airborne Battalion, Devonshire Regiment

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Continued from 9 July 1944 AIR MECHANIC (L) 2 nd CLASS ALFRED EDWIN CLARKE (1910-44)    Royal Navy, HMS Ukussa https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-9-july-1944-death-on-island.html       Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill It’s frustrating to find no obvious local connections with a name on a war memorial. With George Palmer it’s the opposite: the Palmer name is well known in Budleigh Salterton and the surrounding area. George himself is remembered by at least one local person as a heroic figure who died ‘parachuting into Arnhem’. In reality he died well before Arnhem and is buried in Normandy. It is worth pointing out, incidentally, that George’s name appears on the otherwise excellent Devon Heritage website as C.T. Palmer, his death being ‘Not yet confirmed’. It’s clearly an understandable misreading of the inscription on Budleigh’s War Memorial. As this WW2 project progressed...