Second Lieutenant Alexander Phipps TURNBULL (1907)
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10th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Born 18 July 1888 at Dardanup, Western Australia
Killed in action 7 August 1915, aged 27
Buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery, Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Alexander Turnbull was the son of Alexander (Alec) P Turnbull and Marian R, née Lee Steere, of 18 St George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia.
He was educated at Perth High School (previously and later Hale School), Western Australia, and came to Oxford in 1907 on a Rhodes Scholarship – the fourth Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia – graduating with a first-class degree, one of only three awarded in Jurisprudence in 1910. Whilst at Merton he rowed and played football for the College. After University he spent a year training with a London legal firm, before returning to Australia and practicing as a barrister and solicitor in Perth.
He enlisted on 6 October 1914, and served at Gallipoli.
He was killed in action at The Nek, Gallipoli, on 7 August 1915.