Name
Henry Charles Turner
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/09/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
134228
Royal Garrison Artillery
301st Siege Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXIV. B. 23A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Henry Charles Turner was born in 1895 in Henham, Essex (Bishops' Stortford registration district) to Frederick and Eliza Turner. On the 1901 Census the family were living at 5 Dowsett Road, Leyton and his father was a platelayer on the railway. By the 1911 Census his mother had died and he was living with his widowed father and siblings at 116 Dunedin Road, Leyton, Essex and working as an engine cleaner on the Great Eastern Railway. He married Mabel Mills on 18 October 1916 at the Parish Church, Leyton and they lived at 71 Church Road, Leyton. His widow later remarried to John Warren in late 1919 and moved to Colchester.
Wartime Service
When he enlisted on 29 November 1916 his occupation was given as locomotive fireman. On 19 December 1917 he was posted to No.3 Reserve Brigade Siege Artillery. He later transferred to the Essex and Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed in action.
Additional Information
His widow Mabel received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £5 2s 1d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week. She also received a pension of 13 shillings 9d a week from 31 March 1919.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
