[Editor: Death notices, regarding Australian military personnel, published in The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 26 May 1919.]
Deaths.
On Active Service.
TURNER.—On the 14th March, in the Bedford Military Hospital, England, Archibald Beresford Turner, late 8th Light Horse, only beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Turner, and brother of Lynda, Ruth (Mrs. Walker) and Gladys, aged 29 years.
He went, hoping to return,
Along with his comrades brave;
But with many a hero he is sleeping
In a soldier’s honored grave.
No mother was there to soothe his brow,
No father to say good-bye,
No sister to take him by the hand
When death was drawing nigh.
—Inserted by his sorrowing parents and sisters.
TURNER.—On 14th March, at Bedford Military Hospital, England, Archibald Beresford, 8th Light Horse, late of Kyabram, loving brother of Ruth, Lynda and Gladys, grandson of Col. Sir C. B. Turner, and only son of M. B. and A. Turner.
He did what he could.
—Inserted by F. Walker, 309 Auburn-road, Auburn.
Source:
The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 26 May 1919, p. 1
Editor’s notes:
Col. = an abbreviation of “Colonel”
Light Horse = the Australian Light Horse, which usually operated as mounted infantry, but was also used in cavalry roles; Light Horse units were later repurposed into other roles, such as armoured vehicle units (e.g. the Australian 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment)
See: “Australian Light Horse”, Wikipedia
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