Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Robert Turner, KBE, CB, DSO (1907–1989) was a senior British Army officer active during the Second World War and the late 1950s and early 1960s.
[1] He served in the Second World War with his regiment, which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1939.
[1] In 1942 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, a post he held for the remainder of the war.
[2] He then held various General Staff Officer positions before becoming commander of the British Military Mission to Greece in 1950.
[1] In 1959 Turner became President of the Regular Commissions Board and in 1961 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle: he retired in 1964.