Clyde N. Palmer

Clyde Norton Palmer was born May 17, 1897, in Malden, Mass. He was the son of Winfield Hooper and Mary (McGrath) Palmer. He graduated from Wentworth Institute, Class of 1916, and attended Plattsburg Training Camp the same year. He married Dorothy E. Keniston and they lived at 23 Fellsmore Rd., Malden.
He enlisted July 9, 1917, at the Naval Aviation Detachment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was sent to Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. He was appointed Ensign, February 27, 1918, and sent to duty at the Naval Aviation Station, Moutchic Lacanau, Gironde, France; to the Naval Aviation Forces in Rome, Italy, June 10; and to Milan, Italy on July 24, piloting Caproni machines. Ensign Palmer died September 14, 1918, in an airplane accident, at St. Inglevert, France. Clyde Street in Malden, and a room in the First Parish Congregational Church in Malden, were named in his memory.

Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Ensign Clyde N. Palmer, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished and heroic service as an Aviator of land planes attached to the Northern Bombing Group in active operations co-operating with the Allied Armies on the Belgian front during September, October and November, 1918, bombing enemy bases, aerodromes submarine bases, ammunition dumps, railroad junctions, etc.

Boston Evening Globe, September 20, 1918:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - The Navy Department was notified today by Admiral Sims of the deaths of Ensign Clyde N. Palmer of Malden....

Boston Daily Globe, Sept. 21, 1918:
Two Ensigns Killed in Airplane Accident
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - The Navy Department was notified by Admiral Sims of the deaths of Ensigns Clyde N. Palmer of Malden, Mass, and Philip Frothingham of Portland, Me, in an airplane accident in France. 
They were buried in the Calais Military Cemetery.