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Name: TURNER, Arthur Robert MC (Capt.)
Birth Date: 14 June 1887 Kensington
Death Date: 27 Nov 1950 Torquay
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1924
Profession: In charge of the survey and building of the Waiti-Chake Chake Road - still the only road on Pemba
Area: Pemba, Nairobi, Eldoret, Mombasa, Kakamega
Married: 1920 Margaret Louise Murdoch b. 18 July 1888 Camborne, d. 24 Feb 1982 Caterham (met in WW1 when she was a nursing sister in Lindi - 1000 bed tented hospital)
Children: Mary Enid (Davies) (1921); Constance M. (1922)
Book Reference: EAWL, Medals, Gazette, Red 19
War Service: WW1 in EA, RE, MC, Mentioned in despatches
School: Royal Wanstead School
General Information:
Source:- Mr R.M. Davies and Mrs Davies
Medals - EA Pioneer Company - Arthur R. Turner, Acting Captain
Gazette 1/8/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Survey Dept. Lance-Corporal A.R. Turner RE - 15/7/1912
Red Book 1919 - Survey Dept. - Trigonometrical and Topographical Survey - Surveyor
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Torquay