Year of birth: 1889

Place of birth: Lydd, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Profession: Nurseryman

Country: England, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Private

Service number: G/25079

Enlistment place: Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Units:  —  Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Bn.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 14/10/1917

Place of death: Zuydcoote, Nord, France

Cause of death: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Age: 28

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

John Turk was a private of the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 11th Battalion, 123rd Brigade, 41st Division. After being returned from the Third Battle of Ypres, the Battalion employed on the coast defenses at Fort des Dunes in France from 1 October 1917. On the 11th of October, they marched into the line in the area of Nieuwpoort, Belgium (Map: 12.SW.M.20.). This strategic city was heavily bombed by the enemy. On 12 October, the trench of the 11th Battalion was hit by shelling and wounded four men. Probably, private John Turk was one of them. He was brought to the 34th or 36th Casualty Clearing Station at Zuydcoote, where he died of his wounds on 14 October 1917.

Turk Edgar Brother

11 Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/2638/5). http://nationalarchives.gov.uk Sources used

Map Nieuwpoort http://maps.nls.uk/ Sources used

Willy H.C., History of the Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment in the Great War (Hockley, CP Press, 2017), p 271. Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/617821

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=87eb1cfd-9185-4e74-a373-e38697db584c

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4512374