PEOPLE I'VE MET ON THE WAY
(Last updated: 19.09.08)
The ninth person to include within this section is Geoffrey Turner
PERSON No. 9: Theresa Clarke on Geoffrey Turner (F/Sgt)
Theresa contacted me after 'doing a Google' as she was looking into her husband's grandfather's history. Geoffrey Turner was originally from India but during the war became a Flight Sergeant in Coastal Command. He was the pilot of a Hudson that on the 18th May 1940 at 2300hrs left Bircham Newton on a bombing raid to Hamburg, 2 Hudsons failed to return and F/Sgt Turner's was one of those.
In September 2008 I found the Hudson F/Sgt Turner failed to return in was Hudson N7329 'I', the other Hudson that failed to return from the same raid was N4700.
The crew were named as:
F/Sgt Turner
Sgt Abbot
LAC Tomlinson (Walter Austin: 550609)
P.O. Lennox-French
Theresa was able to supply me with a couple of photographs, one of Geoffrey and his wife Edna...
As Ken didn't join the 206 Squadron until 1941 there are no records of Geoffrey in his logbook, however within the National Archives file AIR 27-1223 the incident is recorded and F/Sgt Turner is named. On further investigation he's also named on page 37 of Peter Gunn's book 'Naught Escape Us' that covers the 206 Squadron history and the fact that May 1940 was a terrible month for the Squadron, due the loss of 6 Hudsons. Theresa also had these images...
