... of 16, he joined the Manchester Regiment and saw active service In France. Belgium and Italy, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. It was three years after the end of the war —on January 12 th, 1921. that Sergeant Turner entered the police service ...

... aged 18 inow you will know how old I am!), private soldier—an infantryman I was severely wounded during the first battle of the Somme, but I was only one among hundreds of thousands of others who died or suflered. Receiving thirteen severe wounds all ...