Regimental number | 1244 |
Place of birth | Kampton, Tasmania |
Place of birth | Colbrook, Tasmania |
School | Jericho State School, Tasmania |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 25 |
Next of kin | Thomas Turner, Foster Street, Newtown, Hobart, Tasmania |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 12th Battalion, 1st Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/29/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 12th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Zonnebeke, Belgium |
Age at death | 28 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 28 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 67 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Thomas and Hannah TURNER, 66 Forster Street, Newtown, Tasmania. Native of Kempton, Tasmania |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 2 March 1915. Wounded in action, 25-28 April 1915 (bullet wound, shoulder); admitted to A&NZ Convalescent Depot, Helouan, Egypt, 15 June 1915; rejoined unit at Gallipoli, 27 July 1915. Admitted to No. 1 Field Ambulance, 24 August 1915 (influence); transferred to Mudros, 25 August 1915; to St David's Hospital, Malta, 31 August 1915. Embarked for England, 23 October 1915, and admitted to 3rd Western General Hospital, 30 October 1915. Embarked from Weymouth to rejoin unit in France, 7 June 1916; rejoined unit, 4 August 1916. Wounded in action, 19-22 August 1916 (gun shot wound, hip); admitted to 26th General Hospital, Etaples, 23 August 1916; transferred to 6th Convalescent Depot, 25 August 1916. Transferred to 1st Pioneer Bn, 14 September 1916; to 12th Bn, 17 November 1916. Wounded in action, 6-10 April 1917 (shrapnel wound, ankle); admitted to 10th General Hospital, Rouen, 9 April 1917; rejoined Bn, 23 May 1917. On leave, 15 September 1917; rejoined Bn, 28 September 1917. Killed in action, 3 November 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |