John Turnbull (1917 – 1 January 1942) was an Australian-born rower who competed for England.
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 January 1942 (aged 24–25) Asia | ||||||||||||||
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Boxing career
Turnbull represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[1][2]
Personal life
Turnbull attended Geelong Grammar School and was a student at Clare College, Cambridge, during 1938. A flying officer in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War, he was killed in action on 1 January 1942, and commemorated on the Ambon Memorial.[3][4]
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