Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Hollybrook Memorial | Southampton | |
| 2. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 10D GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Family :
Son of S. E. D. and K. C. Turner, of 7, West Castle St., Bridgnorth; husband of Joyce Alice Turner, of 7, Castle Terrace, Bridgnorth, Salop.Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: Royal Army Medical Corps |
| Action : Naval Campaign |
Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.
Detail :
TURNER, Edward Corben, Sergeant Major, RAMC. HS Glenart Castle, was a hospital ship torpedoed and sunk off Lundy on 26 February 1918. Hospital ships were unarmed, traditionally painted white with highly visible red crosses. At night they carried full navigation lights, with a green band all round the ship and with the red crosses illuminated - even in the darkest military blackout. In February 1918, the crew and medical staff of the HS Glenart Castle knew that the danger had increased as they left Cardiff on the afternoon of the 25th, bound for Brest to take on patients. Hospital ships were now a deliberate target of the desperate U-boats, thwarted and destroyed by the convoy system of the Allied navies. German U-Boat UC56 was responsible for the sinking. Of the 186 people aboard the Glenart Castle only 31 survived. Only one boat containing 22 men was found and the other men were pulled from the water by the destroyer USS Parker late on the 27th, many of the survivors having spent 15 hours in the cold water. Sergeant Major Edward TURNER was lost with the ship.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | St Helena Lodge No. 488 E.C. | St Helena |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
3rd December 1914 | 1st January 1915 | 11th February 1915 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley