Gunner John William Turton
Item
Title
Gunner John William Turton
Who?
Gunner John William Turton
Item(s)
Last sermon John gave before he went to war, Battlefield Tours programme and itinerary, family photos, death scroll, photo of grave marker, cap badge, notice of death from Morley Observer.
Story
John William Turton (known as Jack to his family) was born in 1888 in Crawley near Doncaster. He was a lay preacher at Morley Wesleyan (Methodist) Church. When he was 12 he was a labourer in Morley and then a greengrocer. He died of shell wounds on 07/07/1918 and is buried at Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-Les-Pernois, France.
His epitaph reads: ‘THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES STILL MEMORY CLINGS FROM HIS WIFE L. TURTON, MORLEY’.
His epitaph reads: ‘THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES STILL MEMORY CLINGS FROM HIS WIFE L. TURTON, MORLEY’.
When?
07/07/1918
Where?
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Contributor
John Broadbent (Great Grandson)
Collection Day
City Hall, Bradford (02/02/2019)
This item was submitted on March 26, 2019