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

Letter from Mary Davies (dau) 4 Mar 1997 In the course of his surveying my father spent many weeks near Kakamega and he stayed with the Roman Catholic priest named Father Perlocks. My father was able to give him assistance by designing and laying out foundations for a church. My husband and I visited the mission in 1960. The original church building was still there but being used as a store as a much larger church had been built. Part of my father's surveying duties was to make detailed maps. He was also responsible for laying out the township of Eldoret, or Farm 64 as it was originally called. When surveying the road to Malindi my father was stricken with what was later discovered to be blackwater fever. He was unconscious and his survey boys improvised a stretcher and they carried him about 90 miles crossing two rivers in the process to Mombasa Hospital where miraculously he made a recovery. This shows the esteem in which he was held and also the loyalty of his African staff. My father's MC was awarded for swimming across a crocodile infested river with an urgent message in the First World War. The last of my father's most difficult jobs was the surveying and building of the road between Wete and Chake Chake on the island of Pemba. This road transversed mangrove swamps and proved extremely difficult. As I understand it this is still the only road on the island. While working on the road a consignment of wheelbarrows was sent. The African who had not got the principle of the wheel filled the wheelbarrows and carried them on their heads until shown how to wheel them. I was taken to Pemba from England when I was five months old. Soon after we arrived on the island of Pemba the Liwali of Chake Chake held a dinner and reception for us at his house. When it was over a servant brought in a tray on which was a cushion holding a ring with a ruby in it. Tthis was a present or zawadi for me, the mtoto. I still have it.