Service no. CH/14297
Sergeant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, H.M.S. "Vengeance"
Died on 26 February 1915
Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent
Born 7 August 1886
Cause of death: Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action. Buried at sea.
Mother, Mary, 57 Brayburne Avenue, Clapham Common, S.W.
Information from the censuses
Ernest Turnbull was born in Battersea, one of nine surviving children of Colin (born 1865 in St George's, east London) and Mary Ann Turnbull (born 1858 in Fordingbridge, Hampshire). In 1911 Colin Turnbull was working as an engineer's storekeeper (he was recorded as an "oxygen gas time keeper" on the 1901 census) and Mary Ann had a children's clothes business. Ernest does not appear on the 1911 census. In 1901 he was working as a fishmonger's errand boy.