Career
He was killed in World War I in the trenches near Kemmel on 10 January 1915 in a trench occupied by his platoon of the Liverpool Scottish when overseeing the organisation of a barbed wire entanglement. Turner played for Oxford University Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Liverpool Reconstruction Finance Corporation and was capped 15 times for Scotland in 1911-1914, becoming captain of the squad in 1914. James Huggan and John George Will also played in this match.
He also played first-class cricket, for the Oxford University Cricket Club.
He is not buried in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries but in an isolated plot in Kemmel Churchyard.