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Leslie George Roughton Turner - monument. Click for larger image in new widow




In Loving Memory of

OUR DEAR SON

LESLIE GEORGE ROUGHTON TURNER
WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE AT SCAPA FLOW
OCT 8TH 1917
WHEN SERVING ON H.M.S. ERIN
AGED 19 YEARS.
"Life is brief, Love is eternal"

Also

FRANK ROUGHTON TURNER,
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
HANNAH ELIZABETH TURNER,
WHO PASSED AWAY NOV. 28TH 1937
AGED 77 YEARS.
"Worthy of Remembrance"

Also HANNAH ELIZABETH
BELOVED WIFE OF
FRANK ROUGHTON TURNER,
FELL ASLEEP MARCH 3RD 1943,
AGED 81 YEARS
Sadly missed Silently mourned

Leslie was born at Desborough in 1898, the fifth of seven children born to Frank Roughton (or Rowton) Turner and Hannah Elizabeth Kinder. Desborough Cemetery also contains a military memorial for Leslie.

The memorial shows that Leslie served on the battleship HMS Erin during the Great War. You can see photographs and read an extensive article on the Erin on http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/Erin_Class_battleship_-_HMS_Erin.

Frank Turner was born in 1860 at Kettering. In 1881 he married Hannah Elizabeth (just shown as Elizabeth on censuses after she married). She was born about 1862 at Matlock in Derbyshire.