Registered at birth: Arthur F. Stanley Turner.
Born: 1st November 1914, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Died: 13th September 1944; age: 29; killed when a shell landed on Dover Priory Railway Station, Dover, Kent.
Residence: 399, Landseer Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: An Inspector – Iron Factory.
Rank: Leading Aircraftman/Gunner; Service Number: 1499415.
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 2741 Squadron, R.A.F. Regiment.
Served in North Africa.
Grave Reference:
X.H.6.126.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Edna Dorothy Fairs, of Ipswich.
Mother: Lilian Turner, born April 1894.
In 1921, Ipswich, Lilian married: Albert George Fairs, born 1888, Ipswich – died 1937, Ipswich.
Albert & Lilian’s family home – 18, Nansen Road, Ipswich.
On the 7th September 1935, at Ipswich Registry Office, Arthur married Edna Dorothy Wood, born September 1917, Ipswich. They had 4 children.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.
Arthur was an Inspector at an Iron Factory. He and Edna were living at their family home with two children – 89, Schreiber Road, Ipswich.
13th September 1944
Arthur was returning to duty after visiting his wife and family in Ipswich. At 16:03 a shell landed on Dover Priory Railway Station, Kent killing Arthur.
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