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Arthur Harold Turner | |||
Rank: | Wireless Operator | ||
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No: | Merchant Navy | ||
Name of Rgt or Ship: | S.S. Tortuguero | ||
Died: | 26/06/1918 | Age: | 18 |
How Died: | Died at Sea | ||
Country of burial: | U.K. | Grave Photo: | Yes |
Cemetery or Memorial: | Sale Cemetery | ||
Town Memorial: | Not Listed | ||
Extra Information: | |||
Born during the December quarter 1899 in the Bucklow R.D. - ref: 8a/173, the only son of Arthur Blakely & Lillian Mary Turner (nee Scarlett-Thomson). 1901 Census - Wash Lane, Timperley. Son - aged: 1 - born: Timperley. Head of household - Arthur Blakely Turner - Married - aged: 34 - occ: Buyer of Grey Cloth - born: Tintwistle, Cheshire. Also - Lillian Mary Turner - Wife - aged: 26 - born: Lee, London. Plus 1 servant. 1911 Census - "Greylands", Ollerbarrow Road, Hale. Son - aged: 11 - Scholar - born: Timperley. Head of household - Arthur Blakely Turner - Married - aged: 44 - occ: Buyer - born: Tintwistle, Cheshire. Also - Lillian M. Turner - Wife - aged: 36 - born: Lee, London. Plus 1 servant. Attended Wadham House School, Hale and Bowdon College. The S.S. "Tortuguero" was a merchant vessel of 4,175 gross tons, built in 1900 and operated by Elders & Fyffes Ltd, Liverpool. On the 26th June 1918 it was torpedoed by U156 and sunk in the Atlantic, 205 miles NW. ¼N. from Eagle Island, in position 55.50N 15.30W whilst on voyage from Liverpool to Kingston, Jamaica in ballast. Her crew of 12 were lost. Arthur went down with his ship on the 26th June 1918 and his body was washed ashore at Kyle of Tongue, on the northern-most shore of Scotland on the 1st September 1918. Buried 06/09/1918 - Burial No. 15,709. See also - http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cheshire/HaleWadhamHouseSchool.html Extract from de Ruvigny's ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-1918, Part 4, page 217: TURNER, ARTHUR HAROLD, Wireless Operator, only child of Arthur Blakeley Turner, of Greylands, Whitehall Road, Darwen, by his wife, Lilian Mary. dau. of A. Thomson; b. Timperley, Co. Chester, 30 Oct. 1899; educ. Wadham House, Hale, and Bowden College, Bowden; entered the Marconi Service as Wireless Operator in the Mercantile Marine 13 March, 1918; served on S.S. Tortuguero, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed off the West Coast of Ireland 26 June following. He was washed ashore at Kyle of Tongue, north of Scotland. 1 Sept. 1918, and interred at Brooklands, co. Chester, 6 Sept. 1918; unm. |
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St. John's (Altrincham) | |||
Wadham House School (Hale) | |||
St. Anne's (Sale Moor) | |||
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