AUSTRALIAN COMMANDOS Turner, William Samuel James

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Turner ​

• FORENAME

William Samuel James ​

• UNIT

2/1 Independent Company ​

• RANK

Lance Corporal ​

• NUMBER

NX66006 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

1st July 1942 ​

• AGE

28 ​

• GRAVESITE

Rabaul Memorial,Papua New Guinea Panel 12 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of Sydney James Jelly and Elsie May Turner​

husband of Betty Dorothy Turner,French's Forest,New South Wales​

POW 2.2.1942 at sea​

lost when Japanese ship Montevideo Maru sunk by USS Sturgeon off Philippines ​