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Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Death:
February 2, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 3.
Additional information
Son of Fred H. and Martha Francis Palmer, of Longueuil, Quebec. Husband of Clara Palmer, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
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Photo of Harry Gilbert Palmer
My grandfather, Harry Gilbert Palmer, belonged to the the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, the R.C.C.S. Like many other Canadians, he enlisted before Canada was officially at war. He went overseas in 1939, to serve in an advance party of the battalion. He transferred to the the Royal Marines Reserve - the R.M.R. - and served as a signals officer. A mechanical engineer by trade, he helped to set up, and was instrumental in operating, the Canadian telecommunications network in Europe. He transferred to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corp - R.C.O.C - and was sent to Italy, in Oct 1943. He died in Feb 1944, after a can of petrol, believed at the time to be water, exploded in his tent. -
Grave Marker
My grandfather's final resting place, in Bari, Italy -
Photo of Harry Palmer
Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me with the permission of McGill University from their web site, 'McGill Remembers' -
Newspaper Clipping
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer obit Montreal Gazette March 14 1944 courtesy McGill University archives -
Wedding photo
Clara and Harry's wedding. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
Digital gallery of
Captain Harry Gilbert Palmer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 410 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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