Private Walter Turner

Army Number: 26671

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Brimington, Derbyshire. Son of John and Annie Turner, of 65 Queen Street, Brimington. He was a labourer prior to enlisting on 29th May 1915 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 6th March 1916 and suffered gunshot wounds to his right hand on 3rd September 1916. He was admitted to 11 Casualty Clearing Station at Gaizaincourt, France, then sent to No. 3 General Hospital Boulogne, France on 4th September 1016. He was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Jan Breydel, on 5th September 1916. He returned to France on 29th December 1916 and died of wounds received in the attack on Holthulst Forest near Ypres on 25th October 1917, aged 19.

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.