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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 141

A Particularly Fine K.C.B. and Army Gold Medal Pair to General Sir G. Turner, Royal Artillery
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Commander’s (K.C.B.) set of Insignia, neck Badge, gold (Hallmarks for London 1862) and enamel, minor enamel damage to wreaths and mottos; Star, silver, gold, and enamel, reverse stamped ‘W.N.’, with gold retaining pin, with neck riband with gold fitments, in Garrard, London, case of issue
b) Field Officer’s Small Gold Medal for Orthes, one clasp, Toulouse (Capt. Geo. Turner, Rl. Arty.), with integral gold riband buckle, extremely fine (3)

K.C.B. London Gazette 10.11.1862 Lieutenant-General George Turner, C.B.

C.B. London Gazette 27.9.1831 Lieutenant-Colonel George Turner, Royal Artillery

General Sir George Turner, K.C.B. was born in Aberdeen in 1780 and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in January 1797, he was promoted Lieutenant in July 1897, and Captain in July 1804. He served with the Artillery at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and subsequently in the Peninsula, where he was present at the Battle of Orthes, 27.2.1814, for which his Brigade received the highest praise from General Sir Thomas Picton; his Brigade was also mentioned in the Despatch from Major Dyer to Marshal Beresford, and the Duke of Wellington said of the Artillery Corps in his Despatch to Earl Bathurst: ‘The conduct of the artillery throughout the day deserved my highest approbation’. Turner remained in the Peninsula and saw further action at Vic Bigorre and Tarbes, and at the final major Battle of the campaign at Toulouse, 10.4.1814. As a result of his services in the Peninsula he was promoted Brevet Major. Continuing to serve in the Royal Artillery, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1828, and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in September 1831. Promoted Colonel in June 1838, and Major-General in November 1851, he was appointed Colonel Commandant of the 12th Brigade in August 1852, and promoted to Lieutenant-General in November 1854. Advanced to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in November 1862, on the occasion of the coming of age of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, he was promoted to his ultimate rank of General in June 1863, and died at Menie, Aberdeen, in December 1864.


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