Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Bingham Dixon Turner M.A., Headmaster of Loughborough School, late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and his wife Dora, who was the daughter of the late Major James Sweetenham (East Kent Regiment) of Moston Hall, Chester. Roger was educated at Sandroyd School, 1906 – 1909, Charterhouse (Junior and Senior Scholarships) 1909 – 1914, and Jesus College, Cambridge (Open Classical Scholar) 1914 – 1915. He trained with the Cambridge O.T.C., and was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment on the 12th April 1915. He went with a draft to the Dardanelles on the 1st September 1915 where he was attached to the 8th Battalion, and was present at the evacuation of Suvla Bay and Cape Helles. In February 1916 he proceeded to Mesopotamia and was killed in action at Sanna-i-yat on the 9th April 1917. A brother officer wrote, “He was a splendid officer, always doing his work without fear or fuss, and always cheery. I saw a lot of him, and like everyone else, appreciated his usefulness and fine conduct. I know too, how much his Company Commander who was killed about the same time, appreciated his work.” Roger was unmarried.