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VC668 Alexander Buller Turner
BORN 22 May 1893
DIED 1 October 1915 AGE 22
VC Won 28 September 1915 AGE 22
Place VC Won Slag Alley, Fosse 8, near Vermelles, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Alexander Buller Turner No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 668 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Berkshire Regiment, 3rd Battalion attached to 1st Battalion
Later Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment
Now 1st Battalion The Rifles
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Thatcham House, Thatcham, near Newbury, Berkshire, England
Place Of Death Chocques Casualty Clearing Hospital, near Bethune, France
Buried/Location Ashes Chocques Military Cemetery, 2 miles west of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot I, Row B, Grave 2
Gazetted 18 November 1915
VC Presented 16 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Major Charles Turner
Memorials
P Headstone, Chocques Military Cemetery, 2 miles west of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Thatcham War Memorial, Berkshire
P Memorial, St Mary’s Church, Thatcham, Berkshire
P Alexander Road, Thatcham, Berkshire
P Named on Millennium Memorial, Thatcham, Berkshire
P Named on VC Memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on oak VC War Memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on War Memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named On War Memorial, Parkside School, Stoke D' Abernon, Surrey
By The Way…
He was the brother of (1223) Victor Buller Turner VC
VC Held By
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Museum, The Wardrobe, 58 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
Thank you to Mr Mark Beach, Headmaster at Parkside School, for photo of the School War Memorial
