Henry Hamilton Fyers Turner
Memorial: Bitton - St Mary's Church
Regiment: 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
Medals: 1914–15 Star, Africa General Service Medal, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Queens South Africa Medal, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Lieutenant Colonel
Parents: Henry Fyers Turner and Harriet Eliza Turner
Marital status: Married
Home address: 12 Ashburn Place, Cromwell Road, London
Pre-war occupation: Career Soldier
Date of birth: 26/01/1868
Place of birth: Dover
Date of death: 01/12/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: Tincourt New British Cemetery, France
Age: 49
Further information:
On the 1881 census, Henry was living with his widower father (also an army officer) in Bathwick, Bath, and he attended the local Bath College (Which closed in 1909) before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Lancashire Regiment in 1887.
He then joined the Indian Army in 1890.
He married Effie Campbell Moss on 8.9.1896, Bengal, India.
Promoted to Captain on 14 Sep 1898, to Major on 14 Sep 1903 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 14 Sep 1913. He served in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. He was on Special Service in Somalia with the Somaliland Field Force from Dec 1903.
Served again in India 1908 - 1912. He was a Staff Officer at the outbreak of WW1 and rejoined the 2nd Lancers as commanding officer in France on 2 Dec 1915. In 1917 as C/O of the 2nd Lancers, Henry was killed in a charge with his unit (Battle of Cambrai)
Henry is commemorated on a number of UK memorials, the local ones being St Mary's Bitton, Upton Cheyney Memorial, Bath College memorial (now situated inside Bath Abbey), Bath Memorial (Entrance to Victoria Park) and St Mary's Church Pulteney Road, Bath
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information is based by kind permission on the following source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Volunteer Researcher John Davis.