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  • Black Rock
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Theological Hall, Bendigo, Victoria
  • Youngest son of Keppel Arthur and Margaret A. Turnour, Cohuna, Victoria. Four brothers: Arthur Wallace Turnour (1879 - KIA 13 Oct 1917, 38th Batt. - buried at Tyne Cot (family did request the brothers be buried together)
    Donald W. Turnour (1882-1975)
    James Owen Turnour (1883 - 1967) - 24th Batt. Lost a leg France May 1917
    Keppel Ernest Turnour (1884 - 1946) - served with AIF but based in London due to health problems (asthma).
    Three sisters: Sybil, Alice and Marion
  • Theological student
  • The action in which John Edward was wounded is commemorated in a painting by Fred Leist, held in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

Military service

  • 1 September 1914, Broadmeadows, Victoria
  • 864
  • Lieutenant
  • Mentioned in Despatches
  • 59th Bn. Australian Infantry
  • Enlisted with G company of the 7th Bn; embarkation Melbourne, 19 October 1914, with 7 Infantry Bn; wounded at Gallipoli Landing 25th April 1915; promoted to corporal 22 Jan 1916; 11 March 1916 taken into 59th Battalion; 14 April 1916 promoted to Quartermaster; 9 Aug 1916 promoted to 2nd lieut.; 11 Aug scalp wound; 6 March 1917 gunshot wound right arm and measles; to France 14 June 1917

Death

  • 26 September, Polygon Wood, while leading an attack on a pillbox 5.50 a.m.
  • Died of shrapnel wounds abdomen and right arm, in n°17 CCS; buried by Rev. Sulman
  • 24
  • XXIV - B - 8

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