Frederick Harding Turner

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Not to be confused with Freddy Turner.

Frederick Harding Turner (died on 10 January 1915, aged 26) 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]

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 is not buried in one of the larger commonwealth cemeteries but in an isolated plot in Kemmel Churchyard.

References

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)

↑ 1.0 1.1 Bath, p109
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)
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Commonwealth War Graves database
An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)

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Name	Turner, Frederick
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Date of death	10 January 1915
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