Noel Frederick Augustus PAGE-TURNER 6th May 1934 - 8th August 2022
Noel Frederick Augustus Page-Turner 6th May 1934- 8th August 2022
Second son of Frederick Ambrose Wilford Page-Turner [1882-1936],
and his wife the former Marguerite Farndon Morris [1910-2004]. born at the Crown Hotel in Brackley and barely two years later, his
father tragically passed away.
F A W Page-Turner with his sons Gregory and Noel 1935
Educated at Downhouse, Northiam, Sussex, and St Edmonds, Hindehead.
Noel at Down House School Northiam Rye 1949
St Edmunds 1944 , Noel Page-Turner second row from top 5th from the left
St Edmunds School Hindhead
Down House Rye, late 1940's Noel Page-Turner bottom row far right
Noel's First Gun Licence 1947
Noel Page-Turner with his Tutors
Noel was called up for National Service at the age of 17. He chose to serve with the RAF. Royal Air Force West Kirby or more simply RAF West Kirby was a former Royal Air Force basic training camp near West Kirby, Cheshire, later Merseyside, England.
It was set up at the beginning of the Second World War, as a basic training camp, to train new recruits for the Royal Air Force. Known as a "square bashing camp" in the vernacular, it was the very first base (after kitting out at RAF Cardington) of most personnel there during the 1940s to 1960, although the final passing out parade took place on 20 December 1957. Most of the personnel were newly called up in the rank of AC2, the very lowest rank in the RAF, for their 2 years of National Service in the British armed forces.
At this RAF Station, the men were given their initial training on their first entry into the RAF which included first learning the RAF parade ground drill. With rifles, intensive physical fitness training in ground combat and defense under non-commissioned officers of the RAF Regiment, and some education about the RAF and its history. Men, while undergoing their basic training at West Kirby, were accommodated in wooden barrack huts, each one housing about twenty men. Because West Kirby was a basic training camp, with no airfield there, discipline was very much stricter than in any normal RAF operational or trade training camp. Recruits normally spent eight weeks, (later on 6 weeks) on their training at West Kirby before being posted on to their "trade training" camp elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Travels with Philip Wheeldon, Noel Page-Turner,
Paddy Smith & Gregory Page-Turner Venice 1956
After completing two years of National Service, he decided to take further education by joining - the Royal Agriculture College Cirencester to carry out the Estate Management Course for two years.
Detail
After college, he became manager
of a large Pig Farming Estate near Castle Howard, East Yorkshire. Noel joined
the “Green Howards” a territorial Army regiment in Yorkshire. 2nd
Lieutenant Green Howards (TA) 1955–58
Noel met his future wife Christy in
London at the wedding of one of his best friends in 1958. He duly got engaged and
married in Sept 1960 after Christy returned from spending 3 months in
California.
Married 17
September 1960 •Christine Mary Tetley, youngest daughter of Robert Francis
Tetley, of Beechfield, Boston Spa, Yorkshire, and has issue,
1b •Edward Hugh Gregory Blaydes PAGE-TURNER,
Lieutenant HAC (TA) 1982–86, born 26 September 1961, educated at
Sherborne, married 21 March 1999 •Sophie Jane
Holland-Bosworth, daughter of Timothy Holland-Bosworth, and has issue,
1c •Tatiana Alice PAGE-TURNER, born 8
March 2001.
2c •Georgia Eve PAGE-TURNER, born 26
August 2002.
3c •Malia Rose May PAGE-TURNER, born 3
January 2005.
2b •Gregory Ambrose Martin Blaydes PAGE-TURNER
(Woodhayes, Luppitt, Honiton, Devon EX14 4TP), born at
Honiton 28 April 1964, educated at Canford, and University of
Manchester (BA), married 14 June 2008 •Fiona Harriet Wallace,
daughter of David Clouston Wallace, and has issue,
1c •Romilly
Harriet Grace PAGE-TURNER, born 3 June 2009.
2c
.Thomas Gregory Ambrose Page-Turner, born 26 April 2011.
3b •Cassandra Georgina Mary PAGE-TURNER, born at
Honiton 16 June 1966, educated at Croft House, and Evendine
Court, married 14 October 2000 •David Archie
Pleydell-Bouverie, son of Simon Pleydell-Bouverie, of Castle House, Deddington,
Oxfordshire (see RADNOR, E), and has issue,
1c •Jasmin Paquita PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, born 23
April 2002.
2c •Harry Barty
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, born 1 December 20
Following one further farm manager position in Warwickshire the newly married Noel and Christy moved to Devon in 1961 and purchased Woodhayes Farm in the parish of Luppitt.
Noel & Christy started with a dairy herd of Friesians. Soon after arriving Noel & Christy had to encounter the “Big Freeze” in the winter of 1962/63, the coldest winter in more than 200 years. Noel joined a regular convoy of Luppitt dairy farmers in their tractors carrying their churns of milk from Luppitt to Seaton Junction a 27-mile round trip, as the trucks were unable to collect them. They continued to successfully dairy farm for 10 years. 1971 saw Noel move away from the rigors of milking cows to Beef and Sheep Farming for the following 20 years or so.
Woodhayes Aerial View late 1960's
Noel successfully re-established the
Devon Yeomanry after it had been mothballed by defence cuts in the early 70’s.
He commanded the Royal Devon Yeomanry and was second in command of the Royal
Wessex Yeomanry ultimately becoming Honorary Colonel with just under 12 years
of combined service.
Royal Wessex Yeomanry 1971–83, Major commanding Royal Devon Yeomanry Squadron 1974–79, Second in Command Royal Wessex Yeomanry 1978–83, Hon Colonel Royal Devon Yeomanry 1997–2001,
Chief Constable & High Sherif Noel Page-Turner
Mayors Parlor Exeter 1997 recipients of awards and other dignitaries
The High Sheriffs Garden Party July 1997
Deputy Lieutenant Devon 1989-2010, High Sheriff of
Devon 1997–98,
Church warden for Combe Raleigh and
involved with St Mary’s Church Luppitt & Exeter Cathedral.
General Commissioner of Income Tax
for the Axminster Division.
Governor of Honiton Community
College for 20 years and chairman for 14 years.
Chairman of the Honiton Festival
Vice Chairman and President of
Honiton District Agricultural Association.
President of the Honiton Chamber of
Commerce.
Chairman of the Luppitt Commoners
and chair of the Regional Wolsey Lodge.
Trustee and chair of the finance
committee for the Northbrooke Community Trust.
General
Commissioner of Income Tax 1984–2009,
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