William Turner (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Robert Turner KBE CB DSO (1907–1989) was a senior British Army officer active during the Second World War and the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Military career[]

William Turner was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1928.^[1]

He served in World War II with his Regiment which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1939.^[1] He was Commandant of the Junior Leaders School from 1940 to 1941.^[1] In 1942 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 5th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers, a post he held for the remainder of the War.^[1]

After the War he went with his Regiment to Palestine for a while.^[2] He then held various General Staff Officer positions before becoming Commander of the British Military Mission to Greece in 1950.^[1] He was then made Commander of 128th Infantry Brigade in 1952.^[1] He was Brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters Western Command from 1954 and was then appointed General Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Division and Home Counties District in 1956.^[1] He was also Deputy Constable of Dover Castle at that time.^[1]

In 1959 he became President of the Regular Commissions Board and in 1961 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle: he retired in 1964.^[1]

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