Arthur Bryan Turner
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Arthur was born in 1894 in Barnstone and was the son of Herbert and Sarah Turner of Barnstone and worked as a gardener. Herbert was the Foreman at the Barnstone Cement Works. His father Herbert was born in 1864 in Heage, Derbyshire and his mother Sarah Alice Faulks was born in 1866 in Cropwell Bishop, they were married in 1891, their marriage was recorded in the Bingham Registration area , they had a further child a daughter Clara Beatrice born in 1893 in Barnstone.
Private 3476 Arthur Bryan Turner, enlisted at Nottingham on 7th November 1914 and served with the 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. He arrived in France on 25 June 1915 as part of a group of 103 men, under the command of Lieutenant Pyatt, which joined the battalion on 29 June near Ypres in Belgium, bringing it up to strength. He was killed in action on 13 October 1915 during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial to the Missing in France.
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