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Name: TURNER, Samuel Norman

Birth Date: 29 Apr 1903 Rochdale

Death Date: 16 Dec 1957 Kilifi

First Date: 1930

Profession: Farmer, Mweiga 1938; pilot; E. Af. Airways Director

Area: Box 20, Naro Moru, Mnarani Estate Kilifi

Married: In Nyeri 17 Sep 1934 Margaret Lister Hardie b. 1911 ?West Ham, Essex (dau of Dr J.C. Hardie of Southampton and Mrs Macdonald of Limuru) See her entry under Hardie

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Fleming, Campling

General Information:

Fleming - An opposition company [to Wilson Airways] had just started up called East African Airways, in which Lord John Carberry and Norman Turner were part of the financial backing. …..
Fleming - At Nyeri we went and stayed with Margot Turner, the wife of Norman Turner who had been one of the East African Airways financiers and directors. Norman was a Squadron-Leader in the RAF by this time, and Margot was running his farm and had made a great success of it. She was a sweet girl, young, tall, very attractive, with a mop of hair, green eyes, and full of life and fun. She was a Kenya-born girl and knew a lot about farming. They had a very attractive bungalow, deep in the virgin forest, built of cedar logs, with cedar-shingled roof. It had a very pretty garden, and a lovely view of Mount Kenya.
Campling - "It was about this time that they heard the news of the death of "Corkscrew" Edwards. He was flying a Gypsy Moth when he buzzed low over a mine to greet some friends and hit the gantry, and that was the end of him. Edwards had joined in a consortium that formed a company known as East African Airways Ltd., and others involved included John Carberry, Dot Lyons and Norman Turner, who was a director.
Campling - 1933 - Kenya's first air force unit as a unit of the KDF - Pilot Officer
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
Gazette 25 Feb 1958 probate
Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate 3 June 1930

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