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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Adelaide
• Land South Australia, Australia
• Last residence Bellevue, Western Australia
• Family Son of B.W. Turner, Rason Avenue, Bellevue; his brother Thomas 'Stormy' Turner also served and was with him when he died.
• Profession Labourer
• Extra info He was a boxer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 2 September 1914, Blackboy Hill
• Service number 365
• Rank Corporal
• Medals South Australia
• Regiment and unit 11th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Embarked 2 November 1914, Fremantle; wounded at the landing at Gallipoli, 25 april 1915; wounded in the fighting for Leane's Trench, 31 July; reambarked September 1916; to France 17 December 1916

Death

• Wounded 20 September, Glencorse Wood
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds, compound fracture left leg, right leg and hands; arm amputated; in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIX - A - 5

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