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Bringing home Ronnie Poulton Palmer

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While supervising engineering works in a trench just north of Ploegsteert Wood in Belgium, Ronnie Poulton Palmer was shot by a sniper. His last words were reputed to be “I shall never play at Twickenham again.”

He is buried in the Royal Berks Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner, in Belgium (Grave reference B.11).

This season, Twickenham ground staff kept soil from the stadium pitch to take to Ronnie’s grave and, with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, this was scattered on the grave last month (April) by the RFU’s First World War Commemoration Ambassador and former England captain, Lewis Moody.
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