Frederick Harding Turner
| Born | Frederick Harding Turner 10 January 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 1 July 1916 (aged 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Branch | File:Flag of the British Army.svg British Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conflicts | Battle of the Somme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 – 10 January 1915) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
[edit | edit source]Amateur career
[edit | edit source]Turner was educated at Sedbergh and Trinity College, Oxford.[1] He played for Oxford University, and Liverpool.
Provincial career
[edit | edit source]He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911 while still with Oxford University.[2]
International career
[edit | edit source]He was capped 15 times for Scotland in 1911–14, becoming captain of the squad in 1914.[3] Turner was a back-row forward, who had taken the kicks in the last match before the war: a Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh), which Scotland lost 15–16.[4] James Huggan and John George Will also played in this match.[4] He also played first-class cricket, for the Oxford University Cricket Club.[5]
Military career
[edit | edit source]He was killed in World War I[3] in the trenches near Kemmel on 10 January 1915 in a trench occupied by his platoon of the Liverpool Scottish when overseeing the organisation of a barbed wire entanglement.[4][6]
He is buried in an isolated plot in Kemmel churchyard, not in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries. He was buried in the Kemmel churchyard next to Percy Dale Kendall who captained England in 1903. His grave was prepared by Dr Noel Chavasse VC and Bar, MC, who also died at Ypres in August 1917. The battlefield consumed both graves and Kendal and Turner's remains have never been found. [2]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
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- ^ a b Bath, p109
- ^ a b c An entire team wiped out by the Great War (The Scotsman)
- ^ CricketArchive
- ^ CWGC
External links
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- 1888 births
- 1915 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- British Army personnel of World War I
- King's Regiment (Liverpool) officers
- Scottish cricketers
- Oxford University cricketers
- People educated at Sedbergh School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
- Whites Trial players
- Rugby union players from Liverpool
- Rugby union flankers
- Military personnel from Liverpool
- Oxford University RFC players
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs
- British Army personnel stubs