R.S.M. E. C. TURNER
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Born: Q2 1883 Bridgnorth RD Edward Corben Turner [GRO] Baptised Edward Corben Turner St Mary M., 31 May 1883. Parents Stephen Edward Denning and Catherine Sarah Seely.
[1901]: Father: Stephen E D 44, Elementary School Teacher, Devonport, Devon, Mother Catherine S S 44, Elementary School Teacher, Wincanton, Somerset. Living at 1 Hospital Street. Bridgnorth. Edward C Turner, son 17, Carpet Designer, Bridgnorth. Ella , dau, 14, Bernard W 13.
[1911] 7 West Castle Street, Bridgnorth: Stephen E D Turner, Head, m, 54, Elementary School Teacher (Head), Devonport, Devon.
					Alice Jane, wife, 43, mar 3yrs -/-/- Middlesex, Hampstead
					Bernard Wm , son, 23, s, Elementary School Teacher (Assistant), Salop, Bridgnorth.

FreeBMD Marriages has Stephen Edward D Turner marrying in Bridgnorth Q2 1907, bride's name missing. Presumably second marriage.

Ancestry Tree atandfamily names wife as Joyce Alice Littleford. Mar in Maidenhead, Berks. Suggests they had a daughter (private on tree)
Married Q3 1909 Maidenhead [GRO] Edward Corben Turner & Joyce Alice Littleford. 

1911 Joyce Alice is staying with her sister Ethel Mary and Ethel's husband Albert Evans, a grocery assistant at the Co-op, Silverdale, Staffs.

TURNER, EDWARD CORBEN
Rank: Serjeant Major
Service No: 18391
Date of Death: 26/02/1918
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Panel Reference
 Memorial
HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
Additional Information: Son of S. E. D. and K. C. Turner, of 7, West Castle St., Bridgnorth; husband of Joyce Alice Turner, of 7, Castle Terrace, Bridgnorth, Salop. [CWGC]

Historical Information
The Hollybrook Memorial commemorates by name almost 1,900 servicemen and women of the Commonwealth land and air forces* whose graves are not known, many of whom were lost in transports or other vessels torpedoed or mined in home waters (*Officers and men of the Commonwealth's navies who have no grave but the sea are commemorated on memorials elsewhere). The memorial also bears the names of those who were lost or buried at sea, or who died at home but whose bodies could not be recovered for burial. Almost one third of the names on the memorial are those of officers and men of the South African Native Labour Corps, who died when the troop transport Mendi sank in the Channel following a collision on 21 February 1917. Other vessels sunk with significant loss of life were:
HS Anglia, a hospital ship sunk by mine off Dover on 17 November 1915.
SS Citta Di Palermo, an Italian transport carrying Commonwealth troops, sunk by mine off Brindisi on 8 January 1916. In rescuing survivors, two Royal Naval Otranto drifters were themselves mined and blown up.
HMTs Donegal and Warilda, ambulance transports torpedoed and sunk between Le Havre and Southampton on 17 April 1917 and 3 August 1918.
HS Glenart Castle, a hospital ship torpedoed and sunk off Lundy on 26 February 1918.
SS Galway Castle, torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic on 12 September 1918.
RMS Leinster, the Irish mail boat, torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea on 10 October 1918.
Among those commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial is Field Marshall Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, who died when the battle cruiser HMS Hampshire was mined and sunk off Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916.
(There were 14 members of the Indian Forces commemorated here who are now known to have been cremated at Patcham Down, Sussex, and are now commemorated on a dedicated memorial there). 
The memorial was designed by T. Newham and unveiled by Sir William Robertson on 10 December 1930.

HS Glenart Castle, Sunk 10 miles W of Lundy by UC 56. 153 casualties. torpedoed en route from Newport to Brest to pick up war wounded.
http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2012/02_feb/26_hmhs_glenart_castle.htm has details including list of dead (includes E C Turner).

Name:	Edward Corben Turner
Birth Place:	Shrewsbury
Death Date:	26 Feb 1918
Death Location:	At Sea
Enlistment Location:	Shrewsbury
Rank:	A/S.M.
Regiment:	Royal Army Medical Corps
Number:	18391
Type of Casualty:	Died
Theatre of War:	At Sea [UK Soldiers Died]

BJ of 26 June 1915 has letter from Sgt B W Turner, Assistant Master of Low town school.
BJ of 14 Sep 1918 reports wedding of Sgt Bernard William Turner, youngest son of Mr S E D Turner to Adelaide Georgina Howard of Chester.

Medal Card for 18391 Edward C Turner A/WO1 No date of first entry. V&B