TURNER, Reginald John
| Service Number: | 584 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 18 December 1895 |
| Home Town: | Broadmeadows, Clarence Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Marist Brothers, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Wounds, 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, France, 7 June 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord Plot III, Row B, Grave No. 271, France. Buried by Father J Fahey DSO, RC Chaplain |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle Honour Roll, Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 584, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 584, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 13 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 584, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th June 1917, Private Reginald John Turner, 36th Battalion (Reg No-584), storeman (Sorby & Company), from C/O Mrs. Cleary, Young Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, France, Battle of Messines, age 21 Years 5 months.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 18th December 1895 to William George (died 19.5.1910, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 65, no funeral notice), and Annie Turner (died 29.9.1940, Wickham, N.S.W., age 81), from 22 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales (1917) and 60 Bishopgate Street, Wickham, N.S.W. (1923) and 50 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W. and 5 Beresford Street, Wickham, N.S.W., Reg enlisted on the 29th February 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 13th May 1916.
Wounded in action - 7.6.1917 (severe GSW to abdomen).
Mr. Turner is resting at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot III Row B Grave 271.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Reg’s name has been inscribed on the St. Mary's-Marist Bros' School (Newcastle) Honour Roll, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Gardner Memorial, Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial and the Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board. The district of Broadmeadow did not produce a War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Turner gravesite in remembrance of Reg’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 1-07. 101.
Brother-in-law to Samuel Cleary (born Barnsley, Yorkshire, England about 1878, married quarryman (1st Class), from Young Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, enlisted 2.10.1916, 46th Battalion, Reg No-2882, Died of Wounds at No.3 Canadian Stationery Hospital (SW left thigh, compound fracture of left arm & femur, First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux), age 40, father of two (William B and Samuel Joseph), resting at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 1, France, Plot VI Row D Grave 26, memorialised at the cemetery. ANGLICAN 1-08. 113.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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