Born at Burslem, Staffordshire.
Enlisted at Coventry on the 24th of September 1847,
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Crate-maker.,
He was mortally wounded during the Charge. Had his left arm severed at the shoulder by a cannon-ball.
Died "on passage to the Hospital" on the 28th of October 1854.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.
The broken top half of a sabre scabbard, bent and twisted, formed an item in the "George Loy Smith" collection of memorabilia on display in a Sheffield Museum in 1981. (See his record.)
A card attached stated that "This belonged to Private Turner, K.I.A., and had been picked up in the valley seven months later." (This was most probably on the 28th of May 1855 when the regiment passed again over the same ground.)
In his account of the Charge George Loy Smith wrote that "before we had gone many hundred yards, Private Turner's arm was struck off close to the shoulder...
Later, referring to 1463 Richard Young, whose arm had also been shot off... I had hardly done speaking to him when Private Turner fell back, calling out to me for help. I told him too, to go back to the rear...