Image below: Crew photograph of HMS Falcon taken between April of 1937 and April of 1939. Alfred Turner, the source of these photographs, can be seen third row up - second from left.

Image below: Alfred Turner, seen far left. (This photograph was taken later in Alfred Turner's naval career, onboard HMS Wanderer during WWII Atlantic convoy service.)

Image below: Alfred Turner on his trip out of China at the end of his Yangtse service. Due to the Japanese invasion he was required to leave Chungking 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. (Note that the train car is labeled "Dong Dang".) More information regarding upper Yangtze gunboat crews leaving China can be found here.

Images below: Photographs of some of HMS Falcon's crew (and others).

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