"GENERAL" TURNER

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 5 July 1926, Page 9

"GENERAL" TURNER

SUICIDE ENDS IN REVELATION

A BOY SCOUTS SENSATION.

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, 2nd July.

Startling disclosures have occurred as a result of the suicide of General W. S. Turner, the well-known Boy Scout Commissioner in London, and an active member of Toe H. He- wore a brigadier-general's uniform on ceremonial occasions, decorated with a D.S.O. Tho fact that both rank and decorations were bogus was only revealed when he was found shot dead at Bromley. It has since boen revealed that prior to his suicide,' Turner was questioned regarding financial irregularities in tho Boy Scouts' Club. Moreover, his colleagues had become suspicious regarding his rank, owing to Turner telling a manservant that he was expecting a telephone call from the War Office. Later, ~a voice asked for "Goneral Turner," but tho servant recognised Turner's own voice It appears that Turner was tho son of a Peckham tailor, an_, was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. He was wounded and gassed during tho war, and later was promoted to lieutenant. His friends are still reluctant to believe that Turner was a fraud, as his charitable activities were remarkable.