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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Antony Turner
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Antony James Dillon Turner
| birth_date = 19 September 1907
| birth_place = [[Abbottabad]], [[North-West Frontier Province]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|10|4|1907|9|19|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Accra]], Ghana
| nickname =
| family = [[Walter Turner (cricketer)|Walter Turner]] (father)<br>[[Arthur Turner (British Army officer)|Arthur Turner]] (uncle)<br>[[John Turner (cricketer, born 1879)|John Turner]] (uncle)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1936/37
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 43
| bat avg1 = 21.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 42
| deliveries1 = 108
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 2 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/antony-turner-35386 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Antony James Dillon Turner''' {{postnominal|DSO|MC}} (19 September 1907 – 4 October 1959) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Army]].

==Life and military career==
The son of the cricketer [[Walter Turner (cricketer)|Walter Turner]], he was born in [[British India]] at [[Abbottabad]] in September 1907. He attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College at Sandhurst]], graduating from there into the [[Suffolk Regiment]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in February 1928,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33353|date=3 February 1928|page=765}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in February 1931.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33686|date=3 February 1931|page=747}}</ref> In September 1932, he was seconded for service with the [[Colonial Office]] and proceeded to serve in the Sierra Leone Battalion of the [[Royal West African Frontier Force]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33866|date=23 September 1932|page=6024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Sierra Leone Blue Book|date=1933|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDVhIRJKCDEC|language=en}}</ref> He was restored to the Suffolk Regiment in February 1935,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34132|date=12 February 1935|page=1020}}</ref> before being seconded to serve on the [[Staff (military)|staff]] in India in February 1936.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34256|date=18 February 1936|page=1058}}</ref><ref name="UNIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_T01.html|title=British Army Officers 1939-1945|website=www.unithistories.com|access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref> In India, Turner made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the 1936–37 [[Madras Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14758/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Antony Turner|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 42 runs in the Europeans first innings by [[M. J. Gopalan]], while in their second innings he was dismissed for a single run by [[A. G. Ram Singh]]. With the ball, he bowled 18 wicketless [[over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16073.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1936/37|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Turner was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in May 1936,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34293|date=12 June 1936|page=3765}}</ref> before returning to England to attend the [[Staff College, Camberley|Staff College]] in January 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34475|date=21 January 1938|page=437}}</ref> Prior to the [[Second World War]], he was appointed a [[Staff captain#United Kingdom|staff captain]] at [[Aldershot Garrison]] in February 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34602|date=24 February 1939|page=1310}}</ref> He served in the war and was awarded the [[Military Cross]] in August 1940.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001547/19400827/163/0006|title=Military Cross|work=[[The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper)|Newcastle Journal]]|location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]]|page=6|date=27 August 1940|access-date=2 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> He later commanded the 6th Battalion, [[Duke of Wellington's Regiment]] during the [[Operation Overlord|Normandy campaign]], but was relieved from his command after requesting that his battalion rest and refit.<ref name="UNIT"/> He was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in February 1945, having previously held the [[Military rank#Types of rank|war substantive]] rank.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36918|date=30 January 1945|page=687|supp=y}}</ref> Later in the same month, he was made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36961|date=27 February 1945|page=1172|supp=y}}</ref> Turner remained in the military following the war, with a further promotion to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] following in November 1949.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38790|date=23 December 1949|page=6080|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in January 1951,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39436|date=8 January 1952|page=241|supp=y}}</ref> and was made commanding officer of the [[151st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|151st Infantry Brigade]].<ref name="UNIT"/> He was later promoted to [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]] in January 1957,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40990|date=29 January 1957|page=719|supp=y}}</ref> while serving as a [[Adjutant General's Corps|deputy adjutant general]] with the [[Middle East Command|Middle East Land Forces]].<ref name="UNIT"/>

Turner retired from active service in May 1958.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41383|date=9 May 1958|page=2987|supp=y}}</ref> He was resident between [[Worth, West Sussex|Worth]] in [[Sussex]] and [[Accra]] in Ghana. He died in Accra in October 1959.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000762/19591016/052/0003|title=Eminent soldier dies in Ghana|work=Bury Free Press|location=[[Bury St Edmunds]]|page=3|date=16 October 1959|access-date=2 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> His uncles, [[Arthur Turner (British Army officer)|Arthur]] and [[John Turner (cricketer, born 1879)|John Turner]], were both first-class cricketers.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=35386}}

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[[Category:1907 births]]
[[Category:1959 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Abbottabad]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Suffolk Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Royal West African Frontier Force officers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British Army brigadiers]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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