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"crosswind" Anthony Cresswell-Turner. RAF number 152668
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War Medal 1939-45, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star,
his claims are: ??/??/45 1/2 V-1. (619 Sqn)
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Service No: 152668
Son of Air Commodore Cresswell Turner and Norah Ethel Turner, of Three Mile Cross, Berkshire.
Flight Lieutenant Anthony CRESSWELL TURNER (152668) of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Pilot
Circumstances of Death: Lost in aircraft Spitfire LFIX MJ843
Forum Post
Death of Death 1946-09-16
Served in FCCS
Burial/Commemoration Details : Row N.D. Grave 28. at Hillingdon And Uxbridge Cemete, United Kingdom
More Details: SON OF AIR COMMODORE CRESSWELL TURNER AND NORAH ETHEL TURNER, OF THREE MILE CROSS, BERKSHIRE.
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Details
Title
Forename Anthony
Surname Cresswell-Turner
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Regiment RAFVR
Age 23
Death Killed in a flying accident
Place of Death UK
Date of Death 16/09/1946
Year of Entry 1937
Social C
School Notes -
Comments Son of Air Commodore Turner
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2433305
Unit
Prefect -
Military Decorations
Sport -
Album Number 23
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery UK > Hillingdon
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School King's College, Cambridge
Prep School Hordle House, Lymington
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary November 17 1946. On Sept. 16. 1946, in a flying accident, Anthony Cresswell-Turner,Flt. Lt., R.A.F.V.R (Cocks's, C, 1937-41). Tony Cresswell-Turner is the third to go out of a group of eight who entered the same Social together. They were an exceedingly nice lot, and Tony was no exception. Though handicapped at the start as the result of an injury to an arm sustained before he came here, which prevented him from showing his paces as early or as fully as the others, he soon showed that there was no lack of spirit, and plenty of ideas, in him. Never by nature a thruster or self-seeker, he was. nevertheless anything but colourless, and those who knew him well were aware that his was an interesting mind and personality. After a full and useful career at school. he had a year at Cambridge, and then joined the R.A.F., flying having always been one of his interests. He eventually had a considerable spell of active service as pilot of a Spitfire, until he was shot down and taken prisoner, though his captivity lasted only for three weeks. It is sad to think that here is another who survived the dangers of flying in war only to lose his life by a flying accident in peace, and we sympathise deeply with his people - especially with his father, who is himself in the R.A.F. - on the loss of their very likeable and promising son.
Service Number 152668
Place of Birth
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my name is Steve Shone, my late father Samuel Henry Shone was an 18 year old doing his national service 6th/6/46 - 6/6/48, he related the story to me how he was one of a detail of airmen who were detailed to recover the remains of the pilot after his aircraft crashed into a field, the same detail of airmen later attended the funeral at Hillingdon & Uxbridge cemetery
