Frederick Harding Turner

Scottish rugby union player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroScottish rugby union player
PlacesUnited Kingdom Scotland
wasAthlete Cricketer Rugby union player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth29 May 1888
Death10 January 1915 (aged 26 years)
The details

Biography

Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 - 10 January 1915) was a Scotland rugby union player. He was killed in World War I 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.
Turner played for Oxford University RFC, and Liverpool RFC and was capped 15 times for Scotland in 1911-14, becoming captain of the squad in 1914. 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. James Huggan and John George Will also played in this match. He also played first-class cricket, for the Oxford University Cricket Club.
He is not buried in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries but in an isolated plot in Kemmel Churchyard.

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