Jack Turner (photographer)

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Photo from the Battle of Vimy Ridge by Canadian photographer Jack Turner
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Photo from the Battle of Vimy Ridge by Canadian photographer Jack Turner

Brenton Harold Turner, aka Jack Turner, (September 24, 1889 - October 6, 1989) was a war photographer from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Turner was a soldier with the Second Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled a German-built 2" x 3" format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone.

After the war, Mr. Turner returned to PEI, married and took up farming in Knutsford, PEI.

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