Walter Turner (cricketer)

Lt. Col Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner (4 April 1881 – 1 February 1948) was an English cricketer.

[1][2] A 'strong driver and cutter' his cricketing career covered 27 seasons when on leave from military service.

[1] Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner was born on 4 April 1881 at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India,[1] the son of Major J.T.

[1] Walter Turner began his first-class career for Essex in 1899 shortly before his commission in the Royal Artillery on 6 January 1900.

In terms of his military career, he was promoted Major on 11 June 1915 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1917.