TURNER, Arthur Douglas
| Service Number: | 4796 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia, January 1886 |
| Home Town: | Oatlands, Southern Midlands, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Shrapnel wounds to thigh, University War Hospital Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, 21 January 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England (C.E. 1892) |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Oatlands Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 4796, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4796, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4796, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4796, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4796, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 21 Jan 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 4796, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4796 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-01-21 |
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Died on this date - 21st January........Sapper Arthur Douglas Turner was born in 1886 at Oatlands, Tasmania. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 15th October, 1915 as a 31 year old, married Bootmaker from Oatlands.
Sapper Turner embarked for England on 25th May, 1916 with the Mining Corps. No. 5 Tunnelling Company & disembarked at Plymouth, England on 18th July, 1916. He joined 1st Anzac Entrenching Battalion in France on 16th October, 1916.
Sapper Arthur Douglas Turner was attached to 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company on 26th October, 1916.
Sapper Turner was wounded in action on 12th November, 1916. He was invalided to England on 19th November, 1916 with shrapnel wounds to thigh – serious & admitted to University War Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire, England with multiple gunshot wounds.
Sapper Arthur Douglas Turner died at 4 am on 21st January, 1917 from wounds received in action in France – gunshot wounds to both thighs & secondary haemorrhage. He was buried in Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England where 49 other WW1 Australian Soldiers are buried.
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