Part 188

=TURNER, FREDERICK HARDING=, Lieut., 1/10th (Scottish) Service Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of William Neil Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.; _b._ Liverpool, 29 May, 1888; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Sedbergh (Sedgwick House, May 1902 to July, 1907), and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. (Law, Class III) in 1910, afterwards joining the business of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father was senior partner, he received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Liverpool Scottish, 18 May, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He was promoted Lieut. 25 Sept. 1914; went to the Front at the end of Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches east of Kemmel, 10 Jan. 1915, while inspecting barbed wire entanglements. He was buried in Kemmel Churchyard; _unm._ The circumstances of his death were given as follows in a letter from a brother officer: “After breakfast on 10 Jan., 1915, he went down the trench to look at the barbed wire he had put out in front the night before. On the way he looked up twice for a second, and each time he was shot at, but both shots missed, he then got to a place where the parapet was rather low, and was talking to a sergeant when a bullet went between their heads. Lieut. Turner said ‘By Jove, that has deafened my right ear.’ The sergeant remarked, ‘And my left one too, sir.’ Lieut. Turner then went a shade lower down, and had a look at the wire, and was shot clean through the middle of the forehead, killing him instantly.” Lieut. Turner was the famous Rugby International forward. He played as a “fresher” for Trinity, gained his Rugger Blue in 1908, when the ’Varsity match of that year ended in a drawn game. A year later he led the Oxford forwards in their runaway victory over the Cantabs, this being the occasion of R.W. Poulton’s great feat of scoring five tries. In 1910 Mr. Turner was captain of Oxford, when they beat Cambridge by 23 points to 18. On leaving Oxford he took charge of the Liverpool Rugby Club, and his wonderful power as a hard scrummager brought him before the notice of the Scottish Selection Committee, and he played in all the internationals of that and the following year, namely, against England, Ireland, Wales and France. The next season, 1912–13. he had the honour of the captaincy conferred upon him, and although the year had been a disastrous one up to the time of the English match, the Englishmen, who held an unbeaten record, were badly defeated by the impetuous rushes of the Scots. Last season Mr. Turner was not keen on playing in the International fixtures, but an appeal for help from the Scottish Union brought him out of his semi-retirement, for he still assisted the Liverpool Club. He was also a cricketer of more than average ability, and held 15 international caps. He played for Oxford in 1909 and 1910, but not against Cambridge, and in 1908 figured in the second eleven of Lancashire. His elder brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner, was killed in action, 16 June, 1915 (see his notice).

=TURNER, GEORGE EDWARD=, W.T. Operator, 1st Class, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4686), 293608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, JAMES=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269658, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8020), S.S. 103639, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, JOHN REGINALD=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., _s._ of John Mayer Burrow Turner, of Hartshill, Bournemouth, Solicitor; _b._ Stoke-on-Trent, co. Stafford, 20 Nov. 1892; educ. Bournemouth School, and on leaving there was articled to his father and had passed the Intermediate Law Examination when war broke out. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dorset Special Reserve Battn. 12 Dec. 1911, and became Lieut. 1 May, 1913, and on the declaration of war volunteered for foreign service. He was attd. to the 1st Dorsets (15th Brigade, 5th Division) and went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the Retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action near Festubert, on the Pont Fixe Road, 13 Oct. 1914, on which day the 1st Dorsets sustained 400 casualties, 130 of them being killed. Buried in an orchard west of the Post Office of Pont Fixe; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. Bols, C.B., D.S.O., commanding 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Practically the whole of B Coy. was destroyed on that awful 13th. We were all so very fond of him; he was always cheery and such an excellent soldier, qualities which he displayed to the full on the days following the 9th Sept, when he was left as senior officer in his company.” Capt. A. L. Ransome, 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Your son was one of our most promising young officers. His two previous Coy. Commanders were loud in his praises. He showed a power of command and common sense far above the average of his age and service.” Lieut. Turner held the office of Hon. Sec. to the Bournemouth and District Law Students’ Society, and had each year since its inception won the prize awarded to the best speaker amongst its members.

=TURNER, MONTAGUE ALWEYNE FISHER=, L.-Corpl., No. 3532, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 5th _s._ of Alweyne Turner, of Kobe, Catherine Road, Surbiton, late Government Advocate, of Lahore, India, by his wife, Violet Frances, dau. of Deputy Surgeon-Gen. Thorp; _b._ in Gulmery, Kashmir, 3 July, 1893; educ. Lancing College; enlisted 14 April, 1913; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action 25 April, 1915, being shot through the head in the trenches at Cross Roads, east of Zonnebeke, by a sniper. Buried at the Zonnebeke Dressing Station; _unm._ A writer in the regimental journal said: “It is only necessary to record two or three instances of gallantry displayed by our comrades to show what our men are, when it comes to the crucial point, and these are only a few of many. The first to be mentioned is the gallantry of our bomb-throwers under L.-Corp. M. Turner during the attack on Hill 60 on the 21–22 April. They went to work like one man, and soon had the enemy on the move. The coolness and bravery of Turner was one outstanding feature and we believe he was highly commended for the excellent work performed by his bomb-throwing party.”

=TURNER, NOEL PRICE JAMES=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder _s._ of the late Rev. John James Turner of Pentreheylin, Llandysilio, Montgomeryshire, by his wife, Harriett Augusta, dau. of Richard Price Harrison; _b._ Richmond, co. Surrey, 7 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford; served in South African War as a trooper in the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and on the outbreak of the European War enlisted in the 3rd South Wales Borderers, 19 Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to that battn. (Special Reserve of Officers) 4 Sept. following. He left for France, 19 Dec., and was attd. to the 2nd Welsh, with whom he served until March 1915, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. He died in hospital at Bethune, 9 May following, of wounds received in action near that place on 9 May. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for distinguished conduct while attd. to the 2nd Welsh. Lieut. Turner was a prominent public man in Montgomeryshire; a former member of the Montgomeryshire County Council; High Sheriff, 1909; and the owner of the Pentreheylin Estate. He resided at Sylfaen Hall, Welshpool. He _m._ at Guilsfield, near Welshpool, 25 Sept. 1902, Minnie, 2nd dau. of the late Edward Beck, of South Gippsland, Australia, and had two sons: John James, _b._ 5 Sept. 1907; and Richard Price, _b._ 16 Dec. 1908. A nephew of his, 2nd Lieut. Alan Langlands, of the 3rd South Wales Borderers, and also serving with the 1st Battn., was killed in action the same day.

=TURNER, RICHARD CHASE=, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 2nd _s._ of Edward Turner, of Sherbourne Lodge, Leamington, retired I.C.S., by his wife, Georgiana, dau. of T. A. N. Chase, late I.C.S.; _b._ Madora, South India, 12 Jan. 1884; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, Hants; entered H.M.S. Britannia in 1898, and became Midshipman, 1900; Sub-Lieut. 1903; 1st. Lieut. 1905 and Lieut.-Com. 31 Dec. 1914; served on H.M. ships Ocean, Triumph, Swiftsure, Pandore (1908–11 on South African Station), and Blonde (1911–13), and was appointed Gunnery Lieut. to H.M.S. Pegasus, 1 March, 1913. The Pegasus rendered useful services after the outbreak of war, including the destruction of the Wireless Station at Dar-es-Salaam carried out under Lieut.-Com. Turner’s command, and when attacked by the German cruiser Konigsberg off the coast of Zanzibar on 20 Sept. 1914 was having her boilers cleaned. In this action Lieut.-Com. Turner was mortally wounded and died the same day in hospital at Zanzibar. He was _unm._ and was buried in the English Cemetery there. The Commander of the Pegasus wrote: “In a small ship of this sort everything depends on the tact, energy, straightforwardness and professional knowledge of the 1st Lieut., with all of which he was so highly endowed. The men loved him, and would have done anything that was humanly possible to bring him success. The little ship, though old and out-classed, was kept as fit as was possible to do anything that was required, and it was due to him to a great extent that she was able to get about as she did in the early part of the war.” He was a Freemason, and was Master of Lodge No. 900, Simon’s Town, Kilwinning, Cape Colony.

=TURNER, ROBERT NATHANIEL=, Leading Seaman, 179019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, WALTER=, Private, No. 1204 (Barton Coy.), 1/5th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Charles Henry Turner, of Halton Villa, New Holland, Hull, Signal Lineman, G.C. Railway, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late George Parker; _b._ New Holland, co. Lincoln, 19 July, 1893; educ. there; was an Engine Cleaner, G.C. Railway; joined the Lincolnshire Territorials, 5 March, 1911, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at once volunteered for foreign service; trained at Luton and Stanstead, Aug. 1914 to Feb. 1915. during which time he was orderly to Lieuts. Fieldsend and Riggall; went to France, 26 Feb.; was doing his third period in the trenches when he was taken ill with spotted fever and died 15 days later in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried in the Souvenir Cemetery there. Capt. Wilson wrote: “Personally I feel his death very much, as he was one of the members of my company who had been with me for several years, and was one of the original band who joined from New Holland, and who have all turned out to be splendid fellows. I liked him very much--he was a good soldier and he must have been a good son”; and Lieut. Fieldsend: “I can assure you that no man in the company was more popular and more respected by both officers and men than your son.” Lieut. Riggall also said: “He was an excellent man, one of the best and nicest in the company. He was always cheerful and willing, never grumbled and would do anything for anyone. We shall all feel his loss intensely and myself especially.”

=TURNER, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1459), 114371, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker, 288305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, WILLIAM STEWART=, Lieut., 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Neil Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.; _b._ Liverpool, 19 March, 1883; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool, and Sedbergh (Mr. Wilson’s House, 1898–1901), and on leaving there entered the firm of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father is senior partner. In Aug. 1914, when war broke out, he enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish and received his commission in the Reserve Battn. 17 Nov. just before the regt. left for the Front. He was in England when his yr. brother, Lieut. F. H. Turner, was killed in action, and it was immediately after this that he proceeded to the Front (18 Jan. 1915), where, following upon a petition from the men, he was attd. to the platoon with which his brother had been so popular an officer. He was killed in action while leading his men in the advance on Bellewarde Farm, Hooge, 16 June, 1915. They had just captured a German trench, when a heavy shell burst, killing him and Sergt. J. B. Jones instantly He had been promoted Lieut. May, 1915, and was _unm._ Like his brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner was a keen athlete. He was in the cricket, and Rugby football teams at both Greenbank and Sedbergh, and gained both his cricket and football colours the year he left Sedbergh, being a useful three-quarter and a good cricketer. Afterwards he played regularly at cricket and football for the Liverpool Club, and was captain of the latter club in the season 1909–10. In 1908 the two brothers did a remarkable performance against Sedbergh in the Old Sedberghian Match; in the first innings W. S. took 5 wickets for 8 runs and F. H. 5 for 16, then after scoring 66 runs between them, they took 9 wickets in the second innings, F. H. taking 7 for 26 and W. S. 2 for 10--in all taking 19 wickets for 60 runs.

=TURNER, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12728, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNOR, CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH=, Lieut., 10th Royal Hussars, 2nd _s._ of Algernon Turnor, of 9, Clarges Street, Mayfair, W., C.B., J.P., late Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Private Secretary to the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1874 to 1880, by his wife, Lady Henrietta, née Stewart, 6th dau. of Randolph, 9th Earl of Galloway, and grandson of Christopher Turnor, of Stoke-Rochford, co. Lincoln, J.P., D.L., M.P.; _b._ 37, Pont Street, London, S.W., 16 Aug. 1886; educ. at the Rev. the Marquis of Normanby’s Private School at Mulgrave Castle; Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th Hussars, 30 Dec. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1910; joined his regt. at Rawal Pindi, India, in Jan. 1909; served with it there and in South Africa, returning to England in Sept. 1914. The 10th Hussars embarked at Southampton on 6 Oct. 1914, and landed at Ostend on the 8th, and were immediately engaged in the fierce struggle near Ypres which stemmed the advance of the Germans to the coast. Lieut. Turnor was killed in action in the trenches at Zandvoorde, near Ypres, on 26 Oct. 1914, while trying to locate with his glasses an enemy’s field gun, and was buried in the Churchyard at Zandvoorde, quite close to the village Church, a cross marking his grave. His Col. wrote of him: “He was a universal favourite, and a very good officer, and is a great loss to the regt. and to the country”; and the Major: “He is a very great loss to us as an educated and thoroughly grounded soldier and officer, and also from his personal charm, which endeared him to all ranks.” The Eton Chronicle, recording his death, said: “He was a boy of strong character, high principles, and considerable ability.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good rider to hounds, and fond of shooting, especially big game shooting, which latter pursuit he followed successfully in Kashmir, Central India, and British East Africa. He was devoted to his profession, a great student of Military History, as well as a lover of books and music. He was _unm._

=TURPIN, THOMAS COBB=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 268940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TURRELL, ALFRED=, Private,No. 2347, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Charles Turrell, of East Finchley, Mason, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Hill; _b._ Finchley, London, 7 Nov. 1888; was a Labourer, Priory Road, High Street, Hornsey; enlisted 4 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 March, 1915. He _m._ at Holloway, 31 Jan. 1909, Lillian, dau. of Edward Maton, and had two children: William George, _b._ 18 Nov. 1915; and Alice Louisa, _b._ 8 March, 1910.

=TURRELL, ARTHUR SIDNEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=de TUYLL, BARON MAURICE ARTHUR=, Capt., 10th Royal Hussars, yr. _s._ of the late Baron Carlo de Tuyll, Lieut., Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, by his wife, Louise Emily (now wife of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort), dau. of William Henry Harford, of Oldown, co. Gloucester, D.L.; _b._ London, 1 Nov. 1888; educ. Pinewood School, Farnborough, Stubbington (being originally intended for the Navy), privately with Mr. W. Trevor, Lathbury, Newport Pagnell, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1914; went to France with regt. Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, Thursday, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ He was leading his squadron in a counter-attack that morning and fell when crossing road from Ypres to Menin. He was buried in the garden of the Château de Poljitze.

=TWEDALE, JOHN JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7339), 308093, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TWINE, ARCHIBALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2291), 225355, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TWINE, ERNEST HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4857), 195908, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TWORT, JACK=, Chief Stoker, 170842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TYLER, ELIAS GEORGE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21415, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TYLER, JOHN COLLETT=, 2nd Lieut., 122nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yr. _s._ of Col. John Charles Tyler, of 8, Cambridge Road, Colchester, late Royal Engineers, by his wife, Florence Mary, only dau. of the late General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, K.C.B., C.S.I., and gdson. of the late Sir Henry Whateley Tyler, M.P., and great-gdson. of General Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. (the father of Lady Tyler), who founded the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, and who in early life was extra A.D.C. to Sir John Moore at the time of his death and burial at Corunna; _b._ Roorkee, India, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Wellington College, where he was head of the school and captain of football, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was senior under-officer and obtained the Sword of Honour, July, 1914, the Commandant in his report on that occasion, observing that he would specially mention Senior under-officer J. C. Tyler, who had shown in his present responsible position that he possessed in a high degree those qualities which were looked for in the best type of officer; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 17 July, 1914, and joined at Woolwich, 9 Aug. 1914, left for Dundalk, Ireland, on the 10th, and embarked for France on the 17th, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915; _unm._ The Major Commanding his battery wrote on 21 April: “There is a big battle going on here now which started at 7 p.m. on the 17th, John and I went forward that day to observe. I had to send John and a signaller on by night, to the newly captured trench to let me know if the Germans were counter-attacking and to observe by day. This job he did in his usual gallant way. Three times he came back to me under heavy fire and great difficulties to mend the telephone wires. He was shot at dawn, a rifle bullet clean through the forehead. He died as he lived, doing his duty gallantly and well. Had he lived he would have certainly had the D.S.O. He was killed in the foremost trench captured from the Germans. Just after he was killed the Germans re-took the trench and held it for about 12 hours. We then took it back again.” And the General Officer Commanding wrote a few days later: “I had already sent in his name for good service. His cheery, gallant example was worth everything at these times.”

=TYNDALL, JOSEPH CHARLES=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of the late Joseph P. Tyndall, of 2, Eaton Square, Monkstown, Solicitor; _b._ Dublin, 18 May, 1892; educ. Castleknock College, co. Dublin; joined the Special Reserve, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 17 Oct. 1910; and was gazetted Lieut. 20 April, 1912; afterwards went to Australia; but on the outbreak of war returned home and rejoined his old Battn.; went to France and was attd. to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 2 March, 1915, after a fortnight in the trenches; _unm._ His elder brother, Surgeon William Tyndall, R.A.M.C., is now (1916) on active service in France.

=UDEN, FREDERICK EDWIN=, A.B., J. 7028, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=UNDERHAY, GEORGE THEODORE=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8930), 222560, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=UNDERHILL, CLARENCE GORDON=, Leading Seaman, 208615, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=UNDERHILL, FREDERICK TOM=, Private, No. 1109, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Frederick Tom Underhill, of Aptor Marldon, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily (6, Killieser Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.), dau. of James Stidston; _b._ Aptor Marldon, 22 July, 1886; educ. Bancrofts School, Essex, and was afterwards employed in the City. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, and was later transferred to the London Rifle Brigade, with which he went to the Front, 6 Nov. 1914. He saw five months of service with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Ploegsteert trenches, 29 March, 1915, having been nominated for promotion just previous to his death. He was buried in the Rifle Brigade cemetery, in the Ploegsteert Wood; _unm._ Letters from his officers and comrades all testify to his wonderful cheerfulness under the greatest of discomforts, his helpfulness, and his readiness for any and every fatigue duty. His brother, Lieut. G. Underhill, 9th Devons, is now (1916) on active service.