Name
Charles Douglas Turner
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30409
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
S. II. H. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Lawrence Church Memorial, Bovingdon, Memorial Hall Plaque, Bovingdon, We are not aware of any memorial in Pimlico
Pre War
Charles Douglas Turner was born in Pimlico, Abbots Langley, Herts in 1888. His parents are not known.
On the 1891 Census, he was living with his uncle and aunt, Daniel and Elizabeth Turner and their family at Market Oak, Abbots Langley, Herts.
He joined the London and South Western Railway on 20 April 1905 at the age of 17 as a Messenger in the District Goods Office in Salisbury, Wilts and was employed there until he enlisted, rising to Staff Clerk and being paid £100 a year in 1918.
On the 1911 Census he was listed as a visitor at the home of William Pullin, a farmer, living at Parsonage Farm, Warminster, Wilts and was working as a Railway Clerk.
He married Lily Carey Butler in Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire in late January 1914 and they had a daughter Lily Augusta Pearl who was born on 9 June 1914. They lived at 6 Russell Road, Devizes Road, Salisbury. His widow later lived at 13 Fisherton Street, Salisbury.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in Salisbury on 2 June 1918 and joined the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. After basic training he was sent to France.
He was wounded in action and sent to the 6th General Hospital, Rouen, where he died from his wounds on 5 October 1918.
He is buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.
Additional Information
His widow was granted probate in October 1919 with effects of £246 2s 4d. She received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £14 17s 2d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d for herself and her daughter.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
