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Lieutenant Colonel Victor Buller Turner (17 January 1900 – 7 August 1972) was a British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC) during the Second World War, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His older brother Alexander had previously been awarded a posthumous VC during the First World War. ==Background== Victor was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of Major Charles Turner of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and his second wife, Jane Elizabeth, only daughter of Admiral Sir Alexander Buller.〔Sketch on Charles Turner.〕 He was the younger brother of Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner VC and had a family connection with General Sir Redvers Buller VC. He was educated at Parkside School, Surrey, Wellington College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst before commissioning as second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1918. He served in the campaign in Iraq in 1919–20, was promoted major in 1938 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1942 while serving in the Middle-East before the act in which he won the VC. He lived at Thatcham House before moving to Suffolk after the war and retired from the army in 1949.〔 In 1950 was appointed to the Royal Household receiving a position in the ceremonial King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard and rose to be "Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant" of the Guard in 1955. He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1966 in connection with his services to the Royal Household and was promoted to Lieutenant of the Queen's Bodyguard in 1967. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Buller Turner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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