Gerald and John Palmer pictured in Dagenham in the late 1920s.
John Robson Palmer was born on the 26th April 1919 at Esk House, Bowesfield, Stockton on Tees, the elder son of John Newman Palmer and Margaret McCarthy. Brother Gerald was born on the 17th November 1920 in Stockton but the family moved to Dagenham, Essex in the 1920s.
He joined the RAF in the late 1930s before conscription was introduced prior to WW2.
RAF service to follow.
John married Evelyn Lima Renwick on the 26th October 1946 at St Teresa's RC Church, Filton, Bristol. He married in RAF uniform, lance corporal, and was still in the force when his twins arrived in October 1947.
I have a letter dated 29th February 1948 from Evelyn to family friend Margaret Coombs, the family was in Dagenham and Evelyn was bemoaning the fact that John couldn't get a job at Ford's car factory. The family returned to Bristol where John managed to get a job at BAC, Bristol Aircraft Company, firstly living with Evelyn's parents at 311 Filton Avenue before moving to a council house in Queenshill Road, Knowle West. In 1951 the family moved to 173 Bishopthorpe Road, Horfield, a 3 bedroomed council house on a newly built estate.
John died on his twins' 17th birthday, October 8th 1964, he had driven to Stoke on Trent and back on work's business on the 7th and suffered a brain haemorrhage in the early hours of the 8th at Frenchay Hospital.
John Robson Palmer was born on the 26th April 1919 at Esk House, Bowesfield, Stockton on Tees, the elder son of John Newman Palmer and Margaret McCarthy. Brother Gerald was born on the 17th November 1920 in Stockton but the family moved to Dagenham, Essex in the 1920s.
He joined the RAF in the late 1930s before conscription was introduced prior to WW2.
RAF service to follow.
John married Evelyn Lima Renwick on the 26th October 1946 at St Teresa's RC Church, Filton, Bristol. He married in RAF uniform, lance corporal, and was still in the force when his twins arrived in October 1947.
I have a letter dated 29th February 1948 from Evelyn to family friend Margaret Coombs, the family was in Dagenham and Evelyn was bemoaning the fact that John couldn't get a job at Ford's car factory. The family returned to Bristol where John managed to get a job at BAC, Bristol Aircraft Company, firstly living with Evelyn's parents at 311 Filton Avenue before moving to a council house in Queenshill Road, Knowle West. In 1951 the family moved to 173 Bishopthorpe Road, Horfield, a 3 bedroomed council house on a newly built estate.
John died on his twins' 17th birthday, October 8th 1964, he had driven to Stoke on Trent and back on work's business on the 7th and suffered a brain haemorrhage in the early hours of the 8th at Frenchay Hospital.
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