Frederick Harding Turner

Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 – 10 January 1915) was a Scotland rugby union player. He was killed in World War I[1] in the trenches near Kemmel on 10 January 1915 in a trench occupied by his platoon of the Liverpool Scottish when overseeing the organisation of a barbed wire entanglement.[2][3]

Turner was educated at Sedbergh and Trinity College, Oxford.[4] He played for Oxford University RFC, and Liverpool RFC and was capped 15 times for Scotland in 1911-14, becoming captain of the squad in 1914.[1] Turner was a back-row forward, who had taken the kicks in the last match before the war: a Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh), which Scotland lost 15-16.[2] James Huggan and John George Will also played in this match.[2] He also played first-class cricket, for the Oxford University Cricket Club.[5]

He is buried in an isolated plot in Kemmel churchyard, not in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries.

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References

  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  1. 1 2 Bath, p109
  2. 1 2 3 An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)
  3. ↑ CWGC
  4. ↑ "Frederick Harding Turner Remembered". Oxford University RFC.
  5. ↑ CricketArchive


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