Service Number 4105866
1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment Affiliated to Kings’ Shropshire Light Infantry
Glyndwr Thomas Palmer was born in Glamorgan on 29th March 1915. He was the second of four children born to Horace Charles Palmer and his wife Edith Maud née Rowlands.
By 1939 Glyndwr was living with the Cox family in Hurst Lane, Castle Bromwich and working as a Labourer for a Public Works’ Contractor. He married the Coxs’ daughter Mildred in 1940.
1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment
During WW2 Glyndwr was part of the motorised Infantry troops that operated in Northwest Europe as part of the 159th Infantry Brigade. During the final stages of the war, the allies launched a pincer attack aimed at encircling the Germans in the area between the Roer and Rhine Rivers. Known as Operation Veriatble, the offensive took place between the 8th February and 11th March 1945, with the allies hampered by bad weather and flooding of the land as the German troops destroyed dams. The fighting was hard but the allied troops continued, but at great cost.
Glyndwr was killed in action on the 1st March 1945. He is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery and commemorated on the Altar of Remembrance on the Green, Castle Bromwich.
