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GSM Palestine 2nd Lieut RA

General Service Medal, GVI, bar Palestine 1945-48, 2nd Lieutenant Peter Alston Turnbull, Royal Artillery. General Manager of Metal Box Co in Trinidad in the 1960s.

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General Service Medal, GVI, bar Palestine 1945-48, 2nd Lieutenant Peter Alston Turnbull, Royal Artillery.

 

Officially impressed: “2/Lt P.A. Turnbull R.A.”

 

Peter Alston Turnbull was born on 2nd May 1927 in Highgate, London.

 

He first enlisted during World War 2 on 12th September 1944, joining the 2nd R.A. Training Regiment, with service number 14485663.

 

He joined up first in the ranks, before going to the 148th Officer Cadet Training Unit dated 19th March 1946.

 

Following Officer Training, he was discharged to a commission into the Royal Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant on 4th January 1947.

The commission from Cadet to 2nd Lt was announced in the Supplement to the London Gazette, 28th February 1947.

 

It was in this capacity that he was posted over with the British Army to what was the the time the British Mandate for Palestine and now Israel.

 

Following his service in the Middle East, he returned home and about 29th June 1948 he would claim this medal alongside the 1939-45 Star, noting his last regiment as “R.A (L.A.A.)” 

 

At which time his address was “Killrenny, East Newport-on-Tay, by Dundee, Angus” in Scotland.

 

It would take almost 50 years, for him to then claim his final medal that he earned during World War 2, on 19th December 1994 he claimed his 1939-45 War Medal completing his group of awards.

 

After the war, Peter ended up in Trinidad and Tobago, during 1962 it was recorded in the Chronicle of the West India Commitee that : “METAL CONTAINERS, Commercial production of cans has been started by The Metal Box Co of Trinidad Ltd. Making the announcement was Peter Alston Turnbull, General Manager of the Company, whose factory, located at Streatham Lodge on a 7 acre parcel of land north of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, has been erected and equipped at a $2,500,000”

 

He died during 2012.