TURNER, Percival Francis Vere
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 14 September 1914, An original of C Company |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
| Born: | Bath, Somerset, England, 25 March 1885 |
| Home Town: | Edgecliff, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
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World War 1 Service
| 14 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry Battalion, An original of C Company | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Embarked No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, RMS Omrah, Melbourne | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Embarked No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, RMS Omrah, Melbourne | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Involvement No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jan 1917: | Involvement No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Lieutenant Percival Francis Vere Turner 4th Battalion AIF was wounded at the landing on Gallipoli on the 26 April 1915, gunshot wound to the ankle. He was evacuated to England to hospital and eventually returned to Australia on the 7 November 1915, due to the wound and acute rheumatism. He was discharged from the AIF in Australia as permanently unfit on the 28 July 1916. He re-enlisted in the Australian Flying Corps in late 1916 and embarked again for England in January 1917. He gained his pilots certificate and was with 4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps. He resigned his commission in England on the 6 November 1917, being found as permanently medically unfit for war service, at home or abroad. He had married in 1917 and his wife was living in England. As he discharged there, he forfeited his right of passage back to Australia. He did return to Australia at some stage as he was living in St Kilda Victoria in 1927. He stated on his enlistment papers that he was a Master at the Sydney Grammar College.
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