MarketFrederick Harding Turner
Company Profile

Frederick Harding Turner

Frederick Harding Turner was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career
Amateur career Turner was educated at Sedbergh and Trinity College, Oxford. He played for Oxford University, and Liverpool. Provincial career He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911 while still with Oxford University. International career He was capped 15 times for in 1911–14, becoming captain of the squad in 1914. ==Military career==
Military career
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. 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==
tickerdossier.comtickerdossier.substack.com