Margot Turner

Brigadier Dame Evelyn Marguerite Turner, DBE, RRC, QHNS, Hon ADC (10 May 1910 — 24 September 1993), known as Margot Turner, was a British military nurse and World War II POW. After the war she resumed her career with a succession of foreign postings.

Career

Turner served with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service from 1937 to 1949 and QARANC from 1949 to 1974. She served as Matron-in-Chief of QARANC and Director, Army Nursing Services (1964-68) and was Colonel-Commandant of QARANC from 1969 to 1974.

Prisoner of war

Turner's obituary in The Independent recounted her horrific experiences as a prisoner of war held by the Japanese.^[1] The television series Tenko was created by Lavinia Warner after she had worked as a researcher for the edition of the television programme This Is Your Life which featured Turner, and was convinced of the dramatic potential of the stories of women prisoners of the Japanese.^[2]

Honours

• Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE; 1946)
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE; 1965)

Death

She died at Brighton, East Sussex on 24 September 1993, aged 83.

See also

• Tenko

External links

• Disposition of Dame Evelyn Turner's will
• Oxford Biography Index entry #101053383 (subscription required)

References

1. ^ Obituary in The Independent
2. ^ Warner and Sandilands Women Beyond the Wire: A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45, 1982, dustjacket

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Name	Turner, Margot
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	1993
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