Reilly p 206

Contemporaneous inscription: "Drayton S. Palmer. Sept. 1930."

Ed. at Rugby & Oriel College, Oxford, served with 6th DLI from 1914 until taken PoW in May 1918. He had previously been wounded & won “what soldiers call ‘a good MC.’“ During 1915 he was adjutant for several months & later commanded a company.