Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Third Mate W. H. Turner, Merchant Navy, late Royal Field Artillery

1914-15 Star (56287 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (56287 Gnr., R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine and better (6) £80-100

Gunner William Hubert Turner, Royal Field Artillery entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 August 1915. He was killed in action on 13 November 1940, aged 44 years, when serving as Third Mate on the S.S. Cape St. Andrew. The ship was torpedoed by submarine 75 miles off Ireland. His name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.