Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr William E. and Mrs Mary Jane Palmer. His elder brother Horace William was also killed in action. The 1911 census records for 2, Kings Road, Market Harborough, Leics. Mary Jane Palmer, head of the family and a Showing Forge Proprietress, born 1860 in Market Harborough, Leics., also Horace William, son and a Schoolboy, born 1897, Percy Rogers, son and a Schoolboy, born 1898 and Leonard Ernest, son and a Schoolboy, born 1900, all three children were born in Market Harborough, Leics., additionally Fred Clarke, boarder, single and a Blacksmith, born 1888 in Ducklington, Oxfordshire.