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Captain Robert R. Palmer
RETIRES FROM ARMY AFTER TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
(From the Mansfield Advertiser Scrapbook)
Captain Robert R. Palmer, Medical Administrative Corps, was retired
from active duty in the United States Army after twenty-four years of service
dating from World War No. 1. The retirement came at a meeting of the Retirement
Board at Deshon Hospital at Butler, Pa., on August 20. Capt. Palmer suffered
a severe heart attack while on duty in North Africa on Dec. 9, 1942. He
was transferred to the Zone of Interior arriving back in the United States
March 27, 1943. He served about eight months in England and Africa as Adjutant
of 108th Hospital. His unit was one of those that followed on the tail
of the invasion, and it is believed that the extra work entailed may have
contributed to the disabling illness, which made his retirement mandatory.
Capt. Palmer has had a long and varied Military career. He served
as instructor in the previous World War at Camp Lee, Virginia. In May,
1920, he enlisted in the newly formrd Ambulance Co. No. 4, Pennsylvania
National Guard. On Nov. 9, 1921, he was made First Lieutenant, and on July
2, 1925, was promoted to the grade of captain, which he has held to date
- the Medical Administrative Corps being a "Non-Promotion List" until June,
1942.
Capt. Palmer worked faithfully with the Ambulance Corps during
the twenty years of quietude, as he worked in the other war and again in
this. He met with the National Guard boys each week, and attended every
summer encampment with them. Besides that he was continually studying to
keep abreast of the best methods in ambulance company work. He has had
considerable responsibility placed on him, and he has proved himself capable.
Many young men of Mansfield and vicinity, as well as College students have
in the past twenty years served in the Guard under Capt. Palmer and hold
him in high esteem. Some of his "students" are serving in all parts of
the world today. It was due to his untiring efforts that the Mansfield
Guard unit was able to succeed, and that we have the fine Armory building
in Mansfield.
He has two sons in the war. Cadet Gordon R. Palmer is in the
Army Specialized Training College in Engineering at Westminster College.
Cadet Dale Palmer is in the Aviation Cadet School in Tennesee |
