Newcastle Daily Chronicle 01/08/1916

Photo: Brian Chandler

In Newcastle (St. John Westgate & Elswick) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In memoriam.
William Murdoch Turner
1861 – 1932,
also his sons
David Thomson Turner
Captain, 4th N.F. killed in action
at Romigny, France, May 30th, 1918,
aged 28 years.
Thomas Turner
died in infancy.
David Thomson Turner
Dec.14th 1941, aged 22 years.
Hebron King Turner
wife of
William Murdoch Turner, died July 8th, 1944.

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 01/08/1916 showed this photo saying that he had been wounded 21 months before.

A relative died in 1941. See 2nd Lieut. D.T. Turner

David Thompson Turner is remembered in Haydon Bridge on H24.03

The CWGC entry for Captain Turner