PALMER, ERNEST Sept 29, 1944 age 27 KIA France

ERNEST GEORGE PALMER  b. Feb 20, 1917 Port-aux-Basques, NF, Canada

d. Sept 29, 1944 Killed in Action Peleliu, France

T5l 36505147 Army 315^th Inf Reg 79^th Inf Div

21585 Curtis

Buried Lorraine American Cemetery, France

Parents: George & Charlotte ‘Lottie’ (Dingwell)

Siblings: Orville, Allan D
Spouse: Jeanne M. Campbell  

And from Newfoundland George brought his family to the shores of Detroit. They arrived Sept 21, 1918; Ernest came in 1924. All were born in Newfoundland, except youngest son Allan born in Michigan. Father George was a carpenter and they owned their homes here. They lived on Cutis and later on Orchard, a street just behind the Redford Theater. At one time it was right in the hub of all activity in old Redford; now the street is totally devoid of any houses.

 

 

 

January 1937 Ernest graduated from Redford as did bother Orville. His draft registration took place Oct 16, 1940 in Detroit. He worked as a printer, stood 5’10” at 140 lbs with hazel eyes and brown hair. On Jan 20, 1943 he married Jeanne of Pinckney, Mich. He was a bookkeeper, he a solder as stated on their marriage license issued in Fraser. Jeanne remarried in 1948.

 

Charlotte wrote a poem dedicated to her son Ernest before he went into action. 1944, Sept 13-23 the 79^th cut across the Moselle and Meurthe rivers. In a severe engagement ther cleared the Foret de Parroy Sept 28-Oct 9.