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became Colonel of the 10th (Prince of Wales's) Hussars, 

 following upon the scandal which discredited the 

 former Colonel of that regiment, many of whose officers, 

 charged with cowardice before the enemy in the 

 Peninsula, were transferred to other regiments, and 

 became known as the " Elegant Extracts." Their 

 places were filled by officers from other sources, and 

 the lOtli Hussars thereupon acquired the title of 

 " Prince's Mixture." Colonel Palmer subsequently rose 

 to the rank of general officer. 



Edmund was that distinguished captain in the Navy 

 who, when in command of H.M.S. Hebrus in 1814, cap- 

 tured the French frigate, VEtoile^ the last of the 

 enemy's ships to be taken at the end of the long war. 

 His son, Colonel Edmund Palmer, R.A., has himself 

 carried on the tradition, and given sons of his own to 

 the service of his country. His son Edmund fell to the 

 bullet of an Afghan hillman, after he had captured a 

 tower in one of the passes of that distant country 

 whose sun-baked rocks have been stained with the 

 blood of many a gallant Englishman. John Jervis 

 Palmer, his brother, captain in the Egyptian Army, 

 died of pneumonia at the frontier post of Wady Haifa, 

 looking out across the parching sands of the Soudan. 



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