Reading Out Loud
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There are normally three sections of text on the page that you can listen to: the headings, the main text and a selection. Click on 'Speak Headings to speak the page headings (access key 'l'). Click on 'Speak Main Text' (access key 'q') to listen to the main text.
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You can enable the reading out loud of the element that currently has focus by clicking on 'Start Focus Speaking' (access key 'f') and you can stop this by clicking on 'Stop Focus Speaking' (access key 'd').
You can pause the audio by clicking on 'Pause' (access key 'r') and resume by clicking on 'Resume' (access key 't').
To cancel or stop the audio click on 'Cancel' (access key 'y'). To restart the current audio from the beginning, click on 'Restart' (access key 'k').
To hide the accessibility controls click on 'Hide Panel' (access key 'h')
To hide this explanation click on 'Hide Explanation' (access key 'x')
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Roll of Honour:Richard Grenville Palmer
RICHARD GRENVILLE PALMER
1890 - 1954
Born in Gorey, Co Wexford in Ireland to Gilbert Halse Palmer and Ellen E Weatherup in September 1890.
Richard had one older sister (Eleanor), three younger sisters Annie, Minnie, and Muriel and two younger brothers David and Robert.
By 1901 the family had left Ireland and were registered as living in Torquay. By the outbreak of the Great War Richard’s parents had moved to Widecombe where his father Gilbert had taken up employment as the first “Mr Blue Jacket” employed by local authoress Beatrice Chase. Richard is listed on the 1918 “absent forces voter list” as living at Dunstone House.
In 1908, having reached the age of 18, Richard had enlisted in the Royal Navy on a 12-year engagement. Richard had, prior to his enlistment, been serving as a Naval Cadet particularly at HMS Aeolus.
By 1915 Richard was serving aboard HMS Liverpool and during his four years aboard her achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Richard completed his Naval Service in 1923 and upon demobilisation returned to his family in Dunstone.
In 1919, he married Elsie M Webb of Newton Abbot.
In 1924/25, Richard took employment with the Coast Guard and lived in Cornwall.
Richard died at Torpoint in 1954 aged 64 years.
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