Walter Turner (cricketer)

Lt. Col Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner (4 April 1881 – 1 February 1948) was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1899 and 1911, and the Europeans.[1][2] A 'strong driver and cutter' his cricketing career covered 27 seasons when on leave from military service.[1]

Walter Turner
Personal information
Full name
Walter Martin FitzHerbert Turner
Born(1881-04-04)4 April 1881
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died1 February 1948(1948-02-01) (aged 66)
Harrow, Middlesex, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1899–1911Essex
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 51
Runs scored 2090
Batting average 26.45
100s/50s 2/13
Top score 172
Balls bowled
Wickets 5
Bowling average 41.00
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 2/12
Catches/stumpings 62/0
Source: Cricinfo, 24 July 2013

Life

Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner was born on 4 April 1881 at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India,[1] the son of Major J.T. Turner who himself played cricket for Hong Kong and lost his life returning to Hong Kong from a match in Shanghai on board the SS Bokhara.[3] Walter Turner was the brother of another first-class cricketer, Arthur Turner,[1][3] and educated at Bedford Modern School between 1891 and 1893,[4] and thereafter at Wellington College where he was in the first XI in 1897.[1]

Walter Turner began his first-class career for Essex in 1899 shortly before his commission in the Royal Artillery on 6 January 1900.[5] Thereafter he played as a batsman for Essex when on leave from his military duties abroad.[1] Turner’s best performance was in the 1906 season when he scored 924 runs at 33.00.[1] On returning to England after the first world war, he played in the 1919 season where he scored 371 runs at 51.57 and achieved a career match best with 172 runs against Middlesex.[1]

In terms of his military career, he was promoted Major on 11 June 1915 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1917.[5] He retired from the army on 23 December 1925.[5]

References
  1. "Walter Turner". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  2. "Walter Turner". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  3. "Arthur Turner – English Cricketer and Soldier – Military History Forum". militarian.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. Bedford Modern School (Bedford, England), VIPAN, Herbert Edwin (21 April 1901). A register of the old boys of the Bedford Modern School. Compiled and edited by H.E. Vipan ... Together with a few chapters on its history and institutions. W.J. Robinson. p. 126. OCLC 557698898 – via Open WorldCat.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. "Army lists, 1939". National Library of Scotland. p. 897. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
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