Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private B. Turner, 9th Lancers

1914 Star, with clasp (3702 Pte. V. [sic] Turner. 9/Lrs); British War and Victory Medals (3702 Pte. B. Turner. 9-Lrs); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Bertram Stephen Turner); together with the recipient's Silver War Badge, reverse officially numbered ‘402’, good very fine (5) £120-160

Bertram Stephen Turner was born in 1886, in Canterbury, Kent, the son of Stephen and Caroline Turner. He enlisted on 11 July 1905, and served during the Great War on the Western Front with ‘B’ Squadron, 9th Lancers from 15 August 1914. He was wounded and hospitalised on 17 October 1914, and sent immediately to hospital in England on 18 October 1914. Private Turner was discharged on account of his wounds on 27 August 1915 and awarded the Silver War Badge No. 402.

Turner subsequently worked for the Royal Engineers at the War Office and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on his retirement, when he held the rank of ‘Skilled Labourer’ (London Gazette 23 October 1951). He died in Canterbury in 1966.