Jack Turner (photographer)

For other people with the same name, see Jack Turner (disambiguation).

Brenton Harold Turner, aka Jack Turner, (September 24, 1889 – October 6, 1989) was a Canadian war photographer.

Turner's photograph from the Battle of Vimy Ridge

Life

Turner was a soldier with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled^[1] a German-built 2 in × 3 in (51 mm × 76 mm) format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone.

After the war, Turner returned to Prince Edward Island, married and took up farming in Knutsford.^[2] He died 6 October, 1989 at 100 years of age.