John Turner (naval officer)
John Denzel Etoile Turner was a noted South Australian Naval officer.
John Turner (naval officer)
Turner (left) standing guard with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales in July 1920.
Turner on his wedding day to Evelyn Annie née Brown, on 14 November 1888.
Protector's gun crew c. late 1890s. Turner is standing in the middle row, second from the left.
HMCS Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending the local coastline against possible attacks in the aftermath of the 'Russian scare', of the 1870s. She arrived in Adelaide in September 1884 and served in the Boxer Rebellion, World War I and World War II.
HMAS Protector in 1914
Starboard elevation and deck plan, 1888
Protector circa 1901
Protector's crew in 1900