The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal W Turner

Photograph by "Ned Kelly"

Lance Corporal Walter TURNER, L/7484, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 1st August 1916, age 36.

20th November 1879, born Clonmell, Tipperary, Ireland.

1908 September, Woolwich, Registration District, Walter Stephen Turner, married Amelia Parker.

1911 Census - No.5. Taylor Buildings, Spray Street, Woolwich, Kent. - Walter Turner, head, age 30, married, fishmonger, own account, born Clonmel, Ireland; Amelia Turner, wife, age 21, married 3 years, 1child, still alive, born Woolwich, London; Walter Turner, son, age 2, born Woolwich, London.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent.

15th August 1914, posted BEF.

Widow - Amelia Hammer, born 14th May 1890.

Children - Walter Daniel Turner, born 9th February 1909; Henry Turner, born 4th January 1912; Kathleen Turner, born 10th July 1914.

1918 March, Dartford Registration District, Amelia Turner, married George Hammer.

Buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, II. E. 55., Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France.

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