39th Battalion
Killed In Action
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William Frederick Turner (SN 1924) was born in Ballarat and on March 20th 1916 he enlisted as a 22 year old blacksmith. He was allocated to the 39th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Melbourne aboard the Orontes on August 16th, reaching France in early February 1917. On April 30th 1917 he was killed in action in the trenches near Lagnicourt , and is buried in the Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Belgium.
