Captain Henry TURNER (1913)

13th (Reserve) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment); 103rd Squadron, Royal Air Force
Born 24 February 1895
Killed in action 5 June 1918, aged 23
Buried at Vignemont French National Cemetery, Oise, France.

Henry Turner was the son of Arthur, a carpenter, and Betsy Turner, of 41 Lynmouth Road, Sheffield.

He was educated at the Central Secondary School, Sheffield, and took a double first in 1915.

He enlisted on 16 July 1915, and served in France, until September 1916 as a Second Lieutenant with the Sherwood Foresters, then as a Captain and Flight Commander in the RAF. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre in April 1918.

He was shot down by the German flying ace Rudolf Berthold whilst piloting his Airco DH.9 north of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, on 5 June 1918. His observer, Second Lieutenant George Webb, was also killed.