Reg Turnell

Reg Turnell
Personal information
Full name	Edward Reginald Blundell Leaf Turnell
Date of birth	c. 1891
Place of birth	Aberystwyth, Wales
Date of death	23 November 1917 (aged 26)
Place of death	Cambrai, France
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team
1913	Glossop
1913	Southport Central
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edward Reginald Blundell Leaf Turnell (c. 1891 – 23 November 1917) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Glossop.^[1]^[3]^[5]

Personal life

Turnell attended New College, Oxford.^[6] He served in the King's (Liverpool Regiment), the Royal Flying Corps and the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War.^[1] Turnell was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in July 1916, but an accident in October 1916 forced him to depart the Corps.^[2] He was serving as a second lieutenant on probation in the Middlesex Regiment when he was killed in an attack at Cambrai on 23 November 1917.^[1]^[6] Turnell is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing.^[3]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Southport Central	1912–13^[2]	Central League	9	1	0	0	9	1
Career total			9	1	0	0	9	1

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Reginald Leaf Turnell | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Player Details". SFC FPA. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Fulham". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 293. ISBN 978-1905891610.
^ ^a ^b "Story: From the Southport Visiter dated 22nd December 1917". livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2020.