Frederick Harding Turner, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Harding Turner

Scottish rugby union player

Date of Birth: 29-May-1888

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1915

Profession: cricketer, rugby union player

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Frederick Harding Turner (29 May 1888 – 10 January 1915) was a Scotland rugby union player.
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 was educated at Sedbergh and Trinity College, Oxford.
He played for Oxford University RFC, and Liverpool RFC and was capped 15 times for Scotland in 1911-14, becoming captain of the squad in 1914.
Turner was a back-row forward, who had taken the kicks in the last match before the war: a Calcutta Cup match at Inverleith (Edinburgh), which Scotland lost 15-16.
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 buried in an isolated plot in Kemmel churchyard, not in one of the larger Commonwealth cemeteries.