Photo: James Pasby
1061032 Sergeant
Air Gunner
R.B. Turner
Royal Air Force
7th July 1941 Age 20
At the going down
of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember.
Son of Robert and Elizabeth Turner, of Dunston, Gateshead.
Sgt Turner was a crew member of Wellington IC W5616 DX- which crashed on an air test for a single engine approach. It undershot as it was approaching Nethwold airfield, Norfolk, hit a tree and went up in flames. Five other crew members survived, but Sgt Turner, rear gunner, died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941; W.R. Chorley; 1993; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3.
Raymond Burn Turner is remembered at Dunston Hill on D31.01
