Reg Turnell

Edward Reginald Blundell Leaf Turnell was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Glossop.

Personal life

Turnell attended New College, Oxford. He served in the King's (Liverpool Regiment), the Royal Flying Corps and the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War. Turnell was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in July 1916, but an accident in October 1916 forced him to depart the Corps. He was serving as a second lieutenant on probation in the Middlesex Regiment when he was killed in an attack at Cambrai on 23 November 1917. Turnell is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing.