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Buried at A.B.M.C. Somme
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Born: 1892 at Dorchester, MA

Entered Service in the US Army from Garden City, NY

Earned The Medal of Honor During World War I For heroism September 27, 1918 at Ronssoy, France

First Lieutenant Turner earned the Medal of Honor for heroism near Ronssoy, France, during intense assaults upon enemy positions. He led a small group of men to the attack, under terrific artillery and machinegun fire, after they had become separated from the rest of the company in the darkness. Single-handed he rushed an enemy machinegun which had suddenly opened fire on his group and killed the crew with his pistol. He then pressed forward to another machinegun post 25 yards away and had killed one gunner himself by the time the remainder of his detachment arrived and put the gun out of action. With the utmost bravery he continued to lead his men over three lines of hostile trenches, cleaning up each one as they advanced, regardless of the fact that he had been wounded three times, and killed several of the enemy in hand-to-hand encounters. After his pistol ammunition was exhausted, Lieutenant Turner seized the rifle of a dead soldier, bayoneted several members of a machinegun crew, and shot the other. Upon reaching the fourth-line trench, which was his objective, he captured it with the nine men remaining in his group and resisted a hostile counterattack until he was finally surrounded and killed.