Name
William John Turner
16 January 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
132329
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
19th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
XIII. B. 5.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY HIS LOVING MOTHER
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
William John Turner was born in Bishop's Stortford on 16 January 1899 to Martha Turner and baptised at Sawbridgeworth on 2 April 1899. She later lived at 9 Heath Road, Hounslow, Middx.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hounslow and served with the Machine Gun Corps. The Register of Soldiers’ Effects states that his death was accepted as being 21.10.18 in Germany and the pension records confirm that he died in hospital in Germany. This is usually because a soldier was taken as a prisoner of war.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £25 5s 6d. She also received a pension of 11 shillings a week from 1 July 1919.
His mother, Mrs M Turner of 51 Brook Rd, Brentford, Middx. ordered his headstone inscription: "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY HIS LOVING MOTHER"
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
