Name
Harold Ernest Frank Turner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2927
Hertfordshire Regiment
No. 3 Coy. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
V. G. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY DAWN TILL HE WHOSE HOME IS OURS ABOVE UNITE US THERE
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Heath Village Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Little Amwell, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Harold Ernest Frank was born in Hertford in 1895 to Frank Richard Turner, a coachman, and Jemima (nee Case).
On the 1901Census Harold was living at Brickbury Estate, Brickendon Hertford with his parents, elder sisters Beatrice and Louisa, and younger brother Horace Richard Cecil. On the 1911 Census Harold was listed as a watchmaker and Horace as an engineer, brass finisher, Louisa was a dressmaker. They were living with their parents at Coachman’s Cottage Thorley Place, Bishop’s Stortford.
His parents later lived at College Mews, Hertford Heath, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Harold enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment as Private 2927. No service records were found for Harold but there is research which indicates his serial number may have been issued in Sep 1914.
He went to France with the Hertfordshire Regiment in Nov 1914 and was with them in Ypres, Cuinchy, Festubert and Loos. In 1916 the Hertfordshires were positioned in the Front Line at the Givenchy/Cuinchy sector near Bethune when Harold was shot in the head by a German sniper and died from his wounds in Bethune on 18 Jul 1916.
Additional Information
War Gratuity 0f £8 10s and arrears of £7 14s 10d was paid to his father. Brother Horace Richard Cecil served as Private 2796 Hertfordshire Regiment (enlisting in Sep 1914) and 265671 Bedfordshire Regiment surviving the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
