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Turton |
William Harry |
Major |
TURTON, WILLIAM HARRY, Major, was born 30 December 1856, at Peshawar, India, son of Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Joseph Turton, Bengal Artillery, and grandson of Zouch Turton, of Chepstow and Monmouth. He was educated at Clifton College (Schools' Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society), and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Pollock Medallist); and was gazetted to the Royal Engineers, as Lieutenant, 14 August 1876. He became Captain 14 August 1887, and Major 2 May 1895. He served in the South African War, May 1900 to May 1902, chiefly in the Kimberley and Mafeking Districts . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Lieutenant Colonel Turton was the author of a book called 'The Truth of Christianity' , which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese and Arabic. He was also the author of several hymns, one of which on the 'Sacrament of Unity' has been included in the 'Ancient and Modern', and at least a dozen other collections. He took an interest in genealogy and conchology.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book)
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baux-20
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- The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968.
- ↑ The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968. Page: 3