Frederick Harding Turner
Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 - 10 January 1915) 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]
Turner 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 also played first-class cricket, for the Oxford University Cricket Club.[4]
He is not buried in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries but in an isolated plot in Kemmel Churchyard.
See also
- List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War
- David Bedell-Sivright
- Eric Milroy
- James Ross (rugby union)
- Ronald Simson
- Walter Sutherland
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- 1 2 Bath, p109
- 1 2 3 An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)
- ↑ CWGC
- ↑ CricketArchive