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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 486

(x) Pair: Private F. G. Turner, 50th (Calgary) Regiment, Canadian Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (435795 Pte. F. G. Turner. 50-Can. Inf.), contact wear to the reverse, sometime cleaned, very fine (2)

Frederick George Turner was born at Canterbury, Kent, England on 29 September 1880, the son of Lydia Flinn (néeTurner) of 5 Aldermead Road, Beckenham. Entering the war in France on 10 August 1916 he served here for several months before being sent to a training school to act as Cook on 30 December 1916. Re-joining his Battalion on 24 March 1917 Turner remained with the unit for the rest of the war. Granted permission to marry while still on the continent on 7 May 1919 which he duly did in England. Returning to Canada Turner soon had a child whom he named Alan Frederick Turner.

For the Medals of the recipient's son, Warrant Officer Class I A.F. Turner, Royal Canadian Air Force see Lot 612.

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