Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Company Sergeant-Major W. F. Turner, 157th (Simcoe Foresters) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, late Royal Scots Fusiliers and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

British War Medal 1914-20 (642601 A.C.S. Mjr. W. F. Turner, 157-Can. Inf.); Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (3879 Sjt. Bglr. W. F. Turner, 1/V.B. A. & S. Hdrs.), together with his Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘C10042’, and Ayrshire Volunteers County Ten China Challenge Cup Medal, 2 Bars, 1898, 1903, the reverse inscribed, ‘Sergt. W. F. Turner, 2nd V.B. R.S.F.’, slight edge bruising, good very fine (7) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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William Francis Turner was born in Secundrabad, India, on 9 September 1871. A Caulker by occupation, who had previously served 20 years with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he enlisted in the 157th (Simcoe Foresters) Battalion at Collingwood in February 1916. Serving on the home establishment as an Acting Company Sergeant-Major, he was discharged as medically unfit on 31 May 1917 and awarded the Silver War Badge. He died on 9 August 1933.

Sold with an enamelled ‘G.W.V.’ lapel badge and a pair of shooting medals, silver, one with reverse inscribed, ‘C.C.R.A. Palin Cup Won by Wm. F. Turner 1915’; also with copied service papers.