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TURNER, James Carmitchall
(Service number 11/1867)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	18 April 1891	Place of Birth	Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	24 Marion Street, Wellington
Occupation	Telephone exchange clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Jessie Forsyth TURNER (mother), Talbot Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Mounted Rifles
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Civil Servant

Death

Date	5 May 1962	Age	71 years
Place of Death	Wellington
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Karori Cemetery, Wellington
Memorial Reference	Plot 386 H
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

David Doig Turner was the son of James Hardie Turner and his wife Janet (Jessie) Murray Forsyth née Doig.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 November 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [25 November 2017]; Karori Cemetery headstone transcription (Wellington Branch NZSG record) [25 November 2017]

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