| Birth name | Frederick Harding Turner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1890-01-10)10 January 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Liverpool,England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1 July 1916(1916-07-01) (aged 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Kemmelberg,Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance |  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service |  British Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Battle of the Somme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 – 10 January 1915) was aScotland internationalrugby union player.
Turner was educated atSedbergh andTrinity College, Oxford.[1] He played forOxford University, andLiverpool.
He played for theWhites Trial side against theBlues Trial side on21 January 1911 while still with Oxford University.[2]
He was capped 15 times forScotland 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: aCalcutta Cup match atInverleith (Edinburgh), which Scotland lost 15–16.[4]James Huggan andJohn George Will also played in this match.[4] He also playedfirst-class cricket, for theOxford University Cricket Club.[5]
He was killed inWorld War I[3] inthe trenches nearKemmel 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 toPercy Dale Kendall who captained England in 1903. His grave was prepared by DrNoel 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]
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