Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
please scroll down to send a message
217688
Pte. Frederick Turner
British Army 6th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead,
(d.23rd Oct 1917)
Frederick Turner was the son of William and Mary Turner, of 62, First St., Bensham, Gateshead. He served with the Northumberland Fusiliers 6th Battalion and was executed for desertion on 23rd October 1917, aged 31. He is buried in Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium, Enclosure No.4.
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8th November 2006.