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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 244

An emotive British War Medal awarded to Lieutenant F. H. Turner, Gloucestershire Regiment, attached Royal Flying Corps, who lost his life in a flying accident in 1917

British War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. F. H. Turner), very fine

[M.C.] London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Frederick Harry Turner was born at 18 Priory Road, High Wycombe in 1897. Turner studied at the University of London and was a member of its Officers' Training Corps. During the Great War he initially served as a Second Lieutenant with the 10th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, arriving in France on 8 August 1915. Assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division on 17 August, this Battalion took part in the Battle of Loos, Turner earning the Military Cross. It then fought at the Battle of the Somme. On 28 October 1916, Turner was attached to No. 28 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps as a Temporary Lieutenant. The only son of Frederick and Rosa Turner, he lost his life during a training exercise over Bramham Moor, Yorkshire on 10 January 1917. The subsequent War Office report stated: 'Pilot and Passenger killed. Machine totally wrecked and entirely burnt.' He was flying an Engine 250 Rolls Royce. Turner is buried at High Wycombe Cemetery; sold with copied service papers and photographs.

Recipient also entitled to the Military Cross, 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal.


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