Service no. 490711
Lance Serjeant, London Regiment, 2nd/13th Kensington Battalion
Died 31 October 1917, aged 20
CWGC: "Son of Richard and Fanny Turtle, of 29, Dumbarton Rd., Brixton Hill, London. Native of Fulham, London."
Remembered at Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel
Baptised 30 May 1897 - Parsons Green, St Dionis, London
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Percy John Turtle, 14, lived at 63 Calbourne Road, Streatham, where the family had six rooms. His father, Richard Turtle, 44, a House of Commons messenger, was originally from Ipswich; his mother Fanny Mary Turtle, 43, was from Brompton, west London. Percy had two sisters, Frances Ivy Turtle, 9, born in Fulham, and Mabel Elizabeth Turtle, 6, born in Clapham. Percy was born in Fulham.