TURNER, Arthur Raymond
Service Number: | 198 |
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Enlisted: | 9 October 1914, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 9th Mobile Veterinary Section |
Born: | Wooragee, Victoria, 4 November 1889 |
Home Town: | Wooragee, Indigo, Victoria |
Schooling: | Wooragee Primary School |
Occupation: | Painter |
Died: | Natural causes (heart attack), Murrabit, Victoria, 30 December 1951, aged 62 years |
Cemetery: |
Kerang Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Buried with his wife |
Memorials: | Wooragee State School 653 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
9 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 198, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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22 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 198, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 198, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, HMAT Borda, Melbourne | |
28 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 198, 9th Mobile Veterinary Section |
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Arthur's father, John Turner, died in the Bawden Mine accident on 17/3/1899 at Wooragee.
His grandfather , John Turner, died tragically at Wooragee on 22/6/1899.
His mother, Lydia, died on Beechworth on 29/10/1918. (Before her seventh child returned from the war.)
Arthur married Elizabeth Mary Sutherland in 1920. Elizabeth died in 1972 at 170 Rosmoyne St. Thornbury, Melb.