TURNER, Richard Kirkley

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Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Tynemouth Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Armoured Corps
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14317315
Born: 
Saturday, December 27, 1919
Died: 
1991
Place died: 
North Tyneside
Lance Corporal Richard Turner, aged 25, was wounded 4 August 1944 during operations in France [1][2a].
  • Evacuated back to the UK and to a hospital in Durham [2a][3].
  • Richard Kirkley Turner lived in North Shields all his life and was educated at Queen Victoria School. He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 after 3 years service in the Tynemouth Police Force. In 1939 he was employed as Police Constable no.85 residing at the Police Billet, Albion Assembly Rooms, Norfolk Street, Tynemouth [2][2a].
  • March 1945 reinstated as a Police Officer in civil employment whilst recuperating [3].
  • Post war member of the Commando Association from North Shields [4]. 
Sources
[1] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/80.
[2] The 1939 Register covering Tynemouth.
[2a] Report in the Shields Daily News published 18 August 1944.
[3] Report in the Shields Daily News published 22 March 1945.
[4] Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 94 (March 1992).
Records of Deaths registered in North Tyneside in August 1991.
 
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