Second Lieutenant  Albert Leslie Palmer of Hallam Fields was born on 12th November 1897 and prior to serving in the army was employed in the Borough Accounts Office at Ilkeston. In September 1915 he trained at Nottingham University OTC and secured a commission as second lieutenant in the 3/5th Sherwood Foresters. The following year he gained certificates for courses in bombing  at Daybrook and Otley, and for physical training and gymnastics at Newcastle. He went to France o 5th January 1917 being attached to 6th Sherwood Foresters.  He died of his wounds in the 20th Casualty Clearing Station. 

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