LEST WE FORGET 277 PALMER, Hiram David “Dave” WWI Hiram was born on August 29, 1879, in Port Hope, Ontario to John and Sarah (Redner) Palmer. He was the eldest of four children with two brothers and one sister. The family came to the Carnoustie district (near Rocanville) to homestead in 1901. Dave was married in 1903 in Ontario to Kate Lawson and they had one daughter, Irene Rose, born in the Carnoustie district. They moved to Dauphin in 1910 where Dave was carpenter for the CPR. His wife passed away in 1911. Dave enlisted in Dauphin on January 14, 1916 with the 226th Overseas. He was hospitalized while training at Camp Hughes (Manitoba) but sailed from Halifax aboard the Olympic with the 226th on December 13, 1916. Dave was sent to France with the 43rd Battalion on November 9, 1917. He was wounded with a gunshot wound to the right hand on August 15, 1918 and was hospitalized at Le Treport Hospital. He received a Good Conduct Badge on December 17, 1918. He left England on March 12, 1919 aboard the Baltic and was back in the Carnoustie area by March 24, 1919. He obtained employment in Bienfait, Saskatchewan and married Alice Stokes, a widow with three little girls. The family moved to Dauphin and had a daughter, Viola, in 1925. Dave’s father passed away in 1929 and by that time, Dave and his family were living in Winnipeg. Dave passed away on November 21, 1965 at the Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver. He is buried in Victory Memorial Park in Surrey, BC. PALMER, William John “Billy” WWI William was born on March 26, 1896, in Rocanville to Wellington Wilfred and Mary Martha (Kinghorn) Palmer. His father homesteaded in the Prosperity district in 1891 and William was the oldest of nine children. He took his schooling in Prosperity School and enjoyed hunting and fishing and was farming when he enlisted on March 20, 1916 in Regina with the 1st Depot Battalion Sask Regiment. William took eleven months of training with the 217th Battalion and was unable to march due to foot problems. He never left Saskatchewan as his left foot was very flat and his right ankle was weak so he was discharged on February 9, 1917 as unfit for infantry service. Billy returned home and married Harriet (Hattie) Perry and moved to Carnoustie to start his own farm. The couple had two children, Myrtle and Wilfred. Hattie passed away in 1927 so Billy’s parents helped raise his children. He passed away in 1960 and was buried in Webster Cemetery in Rocanville.
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