Jack Turner (photographer)


Brenton Harold Turner, aka Jack Turner, was a Canadian war photographer.

Life

Turner was a soldier with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled a German-built 2" x 3" format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone.
After the war, Turner returned to Prince Edward Island, married and took up farming in Knutsford. He died 6 October, 1989 at 100 years of age.