Len Turner played for Exeter City in the Plymouth and District League before the club turned professional in 1908. He died when his ship was torpedoed in 1917.

Having also played for Belmont, he made his debut - scoring twice - against the Devon & Cornwall Light Infantry on 6 October 1906. In a season when forty-two players appeared for the first-team, he managed to hold his place in the merry-go-round to play eight times during the opening-half of the season.

Not appearing again for the first-team, he carried on playing a variety of sports and settled to life as an insurance agent before enlisting in 1916. Quickly rising to the rank of Corporal with the 4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he died when the SS Aragon was torpedoed off the coast of Egypt on 30 December 1917.  

Len Turner is buried at the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.

For more information about Len Turner’s war service and death see his entry in the Killed in Action section of the Archive