Monday 18 March 2013

WWII POW Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (SSVF) L/Cpl Guy E. Turner, Medal Group 6


Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (SSVF) Medal Group of 6 awarded to
80085 L/CPL GUY E. TURNER S.S.V.F.

Reverse of Medal Group


L / Cpl Guy Elliot Turner SSVF

1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, 1953 Coronation Medal (all unnamed)
Efficiency Medal “Malaya”, with additional service bar – L/Cpl G E Turner SSVF

BRIEF RESEARCH

Born 5th November 1907, son of EG Turner CIE, 8 B Hayne Rd, Beckenham, Kent.

Married in 1936, Phyllis Joyce Jeremy, daughter of FW Jeremy of Greenways, Bromley.
Educated Haileybury 1921-1926, St John’s College Cambridge, BA History.
Malayan civil service 1930. Enlisted in the SSVF. POW Malaya
Retired to the UK and lived at 22 Rochester Avenue, Bromley, Kent.  
Died in Devon 4 Jul 1984.

 Page 329 – In Oriente Primus

Haileybury Registry 1922

Malaya Civil Service List
World War 2 Prisoner-of-War (POW) Record
WW2 Japanese POW from 15 Feb 42 to 2 Sep 45, Camp Thailand
WW2 Japanese POW Record

Name of POW Camp Leader in S'pore Gen. Percival













Record of the award of the 1953 Coronation Medal
Last Will (1975)




Codicil made on 7 Feb 1978


Second codocil made on 28 Nov 1982
Passed away on 4 Jul 1984