Name
Charles James Turney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
2675
Royal Munster Fusiliers
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 185 to 190.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial St Mary’s Church Roll of Honour, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Charles was born 1894 in Amersham, eldest son of Thomas and
Rosa Turney. In 1901 the family were living at Naylor Cottage, The Village,
Ruislip, his father being a bricklayer.
In 1911, Charles, aged 17, was a labourer, living in a 4 roomed house,
at Stanley Cottages, Station Road Rickmansworth with his younger brother,
Thomas and 3 younger sisters Minnie, Winnie and Milly.
Charles was the brother of Lance Corporal Thomas Richard
Turney who died on 1st September 1915. Both brothers enlisted in the K.O.Y.L.I
and transferred to the Royal Munsters with successive numbers. They were mentioned
in St Mary’s Church magazine, October 1915.
Wartime Service
Charles Turney enlisted at Marylebone, (formerly 14233 Kings
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.) He is recorded in St Mary’s Church magazine as Serving
in Home Defence or elsewhere in October 1914. He entered the Balkans on 9th
July 1915 and killed in action at Gallipoli.
The 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers were raised at
Tralee in August 1914 as part of Kitchener’s First New
Army. They trained in Curragh and in May 1915 moved to Hackwood Park, Basingstoke. At the beginning of July 1915 they set sail from Liverpool. It is described how on 21 August the climax came with the Sulva attack in the Battle of Scimitar Hill. The Turks inflicted severe casualties, the scrub bushes catching fire. The unsuccessful attack cost the Munsters 79 men and 3 officers that day alone.
Additional Information
His soldier’s effects of £2 19s 11d and a war gratuity of £4 was left to his father, Thomas. Brother of Lance Corporal Thomas Richard Turney who died on 1 Sep 1915 and who is also commemorated on these memorials. The brothers both enlisted in the K.O.Y.L.I.s and transferred to the Royal Munsters with consecutive numbers.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Hamilton
