Name
James Turner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/05/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6950
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston, Letchworth Town Memorial, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials
Pre War
Born in Weston in 1886 to William and Lydia Turner. Baptised in Weston on 7 November 1886.
1911 Census: living with parents at Hitchin Road, Weston, Nr Stevenage, Herts and working as a Cowman on a Farm.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford. Killed in action during operations in the front line trenches at Le Epinette.
Additional Information
James was in the same battalion as James Wallis (also named on the memorial), who was wounded on the 16th and died 18th May. James' brother Charles served in the Hertfordshire Regiment, survived the war and returned to the village. He died in 1944. Pay ow
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer, Jonty Wild
