Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-39 (Lt. S. G. L. Turnbull, R.N.) good very fine £160-180

Stanley Gawain Lawson Turnbull entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in May 1925 and was appointed to the battleship H.M.S. Revenge, then part of the Second Battle Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet. Advanced to Midshipman in the same ship in January 1926, he was next appointed to the battleship Nelson. But in April 1928 he came ashore to attend the Royal Naval College, passing out as a Sub. Lieutenant in February 1929.

Returning to sea with an appointment in the battleship Empress of India, part of the Home Fleet, he transferred to the sloop Magnolia on the China Station in April 1930 and was advanced to Lieutenant in August 1931. Turnbull served back in home waters in the destroyerVenetia between 1932-35, but in July of the following year he joined the battleship Valiant in the Mediterranean, which appointment included service off Palestine. Then in the course of 1938, after a short period aboard the cruiser Newcastle, he was placed on the Retired List, most probably as a result of ill-health.

Recalled on the renewal of hostilities, Turnbull was advanced to Lieutenant-Commander and joined the shore base Cormorant at Gibraltar, but in 1943 he was once more placed on the Retired List. He died in February 1966, aged 56 years.