39th Battalion
Killed In Action
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William Frederick Turner was born in Ballarat and on 20th March 1916 he enlisted as a blacksmith from Ballarat West. He was single and 22 years old. He was allocated to the 39th Infantry Battalion, with Regimental No. 1924. On 30th April 1917 he was killed in action in the trenches near Lagnicourt , and is buried in the Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Belgium.
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