World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
Generally showing where they are commemorated, when they died and some basic facts about each person. There are gaps, however, so if you can fill in any missing details do please contact us.
Alfred Clarence (N.B. Soldiers Died records the first name as Arthur but the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers Effects, 1901-1929 [both avaibale via Ancestry.co.uk] clearly records Alfred) Turnbull
Forename(s):
Alfred Clarence
(N.B. 'Soldiers Died...' records the first name as Arthur but the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 [both avaibale via Ancestry.co.uk] clearly records Alfred)
Surname:
Turnbull
Initial(s):
A C
Service Number:
29765
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 12th / 13th (Service) Battalion
Died:
08/09/1918
Aged:
21
Buried:
Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery)
Service History:
Enlisted in 1916 at Alnwick, Northumberland.
After training posted to Salonika for 18 months.
Returned home on sick leave in June 1918 for four weeks, & then posted to his unit at East Boldon, County Durham. Transferred to France, & killed in action five weeks later.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 80)
Background:
Born about 1897, at East Thirston, Morpeth, Northumberland, the son Margaret Ternent (formerly Turnbull), of Morwick Gate, Warkworth, Northumberland.
Turnbull attended school at Warkworth & lived all his life in the Warkworth district.
The 1911 Census records him living in three rooms with his mother at Eastfield, Sturton Grange, Warkworth. He had a sister, Annie (Farm Worker) & a brother, George (Farm Labourer).
Turnbull's occupation was described as Farm Worker. He was employed on Mr. Farqhuar Deucher's farm at Buston Barns, Warkworth.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 80)
Local Memorial:
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church