A Great War D.C.M. awarded to Acting Company Sergeant-Major W. T. Palmer, East Surrey Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (59 A.C.S. Mjr., 7/E. Surr. R.), with replacement fixed straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising, very fine £300-400

D.C.M. London Gazette 15 April 1916. ‘For gallantry and devotion to duty. In a mine explosion he, with three other men, continued bombing and firing till forced back. On a counter-attack being made he rendered material assistance’.

William T. Palmer, East Surrey Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 June 1915. He later served in the Labour Corps.