Maurice Turnbull
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| Full name | Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 16 March 1906 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 5 August 1944 (aged 38) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Montchamp, France | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Scrum-half | ||||||||||||
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| 1933 | Wales | 2 | (0) |
Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull (16 March 1906 – 5 August 1944) was a Welsh cricketer who played in nine Tests for England from 1930 to 1936.
A talented all round sportsman, Turnbull excelled in several sports. In cricket he captained the Cambridge University team in his final year of college and captained the Glamorgan County Cricket Club for ten seasons. In rugby union he represented Cardiff and London Welsh and gained two full international caps for Wales in 1933. Turnbull also represented Wales at field hockey and was squash champion for South Wales. He is the only person to have played cricket for England and rugby for Wales.
Turnbull was born in Cardiff in 1906 into a large sporting family. His father, Philip, was a Welsh international hockey player, winning a bronze medal with the Welsh team at the 1908 Olympics, and six of his eight sons, including Maurice, played for Cardiff Rugby Club. Turnbull was educated at Downside School near Bath; and the school still has a bar named after him for the use of sixth formers. From Downside he went to Cambridge University and continued his connection with sport by winning sporting Blues in both cricket and hockey.
On the 7th of Sept. 1939 he married Elizabeth Brooke only daughter of William Brooke of Scunthorpe, Lincs., they had three children: Sara, Simon and Georgina.
As a Major in the First Battalion of the Welsh Guards he was killed instantly by a sniper's bullet during intense fighting for the French village of Montchamp after the Normandy landings in 1944. His body was recovered from the battlefield by one of his men, Sergeant Fred Llewellyn, and his personal possessions sent home to his family.
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