:Reg Turnell
{{short description|Welsh footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Reg Turnell
| fullname = Edward Reginald Blundell Leaf Turnell
| birth_place = Aberystwyth, Wales
| death_date = {{d-da|23 November 1917|1891}}
| death_place = Cambrai, France
| position = Outside right
| years1 = 1913
| clubs1 = Glossop
| caps1 = 3
| goals1 = 0
| years2 = 1913
| clubs2 = Southport Central
| caps2 = 9
| goals2 = 1
}}
Edward Reginald Blundell Leaf Turnell ({{circa|1891}} – 23 November 1917) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for Glossop.{{Cite web |title=Reginald Leaf Turnell {{!}} Service Record |url=https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/reginald-leaf-turnell-service-record/ |access-date=29 March 2019 |website=Football and the First World War |language=en}}{{CWGC|id=1757445|accessdate=29 March 2019}}{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |date=2012 |publisher=Tony Brown |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=293}}
Personal life
Turnell attended New College, Oxford. He served in the King's (Liverpool Regiment), the Royal Flying Corps and the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War. Turnell was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in July 1916, but an accident in October 1916 forced him to depart the Corps.{{Cite web |date=9 November 2016 |title=Player Details |url=https://www.southportfootballclub.co.uk/players/player-details/?id=2653 |access-date=30 September 2020 |website=SFC FPA |language=en-GB}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Story: From the Southport Visiter dated 22nd December 1917 |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/story/94714 |access-date=3 March 2020 |website=livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk}} Turnell is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing.
Career statistics
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|+Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ! rowspan="2" |Club ! rowspan="2" |Season ! colspan="3" |League ! colspan="2" |FA Cup ! colspan="2" |Total |
Division
!Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals |
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Southport Central
|9 |1 |0 |0 |9 |1 |
colspan="3" |Career total
!9 !1 !0 !0 !9 !1 |
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Category:English Football League players
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Footballers from Aberystwyth
Category:Welsh men's footballers
Category:Men's association football outside forwards
Category:Royal Flying Corps officers
Category:Glossop North End A.F.C. players
Category:Southport F.C. players
Category:King's Regiment (Liverpool) officers
Category:Middlesex Regiment officers
Category:British military personnel killed in World War I