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PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY FOUR
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Alfred Turner
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The photographs appearing in this gallery come from the records of Alfred
Edward Turner who served as a Telegraphist on HMS Falcon as she patrolled
the Yangtse river from April of 1937 to April of 1939. During his service
he was involved in building giant aerials (most likely at Chungking) to
receive long wave radio signals from the UK. Part of his job was to decode
and type up the incoming messages so that they could be passed on to the
appropriate recipient, such as the Diplomatic Mission at Chungking.
Alfred Turner served during turbulent times in China as the Chinese Civil
War and Japanese invasion were well underway. In order to leave Chungking
at the end of his tour he was taken by truck along the Burma Trail to Dong
Dang (Vietnam), then by train to Haiphong (coast of Vietnam), then by boat
to Hong Kong and finally home. Proceeding down the Yangtse to Shanghai
had clearly become too dangerous. It is my understanding that by this point
in time gunboats on the upper Yangtse were being used mainly as radio stations.
I am immensely grateful to the Turner family for permitting these photographs to be posted on the site. Requests to use these photographs are welcome, but publication (by any means) may only occur with prior approval of the Turner family. Any inquires regarding these photographs should be made to Graham Turner via the site webmaster.
The images below appear in both high resolution and low resolution formats.
Viewers of the site who connect to the internet via a telephone modem should
probably view the images in low resolution so that download times do not
become prohibitive.
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reproduced without permission. Inquiries regarding the photographs or information
appearing here should be directed to wampit@warstrike.com. Copyright 2004 - Graham Turner
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