1909, also playing for Essex and the South of England against Australia and for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South. His final matches for Essex were in the 1910 season, playing five times for them in the County Championship, his last match coming against Yorkshire in August. He still played four more first-class matches, playing for a combined Army/Navy team against a combined Oxford/Cambridge University team in 1911, for the Army against the Navy in 1913 and for the Free Foresters against Oxford University and for the Army against Cambridge University in 1914. He played no more first-class cricket after World War I, though he continued to play cricket at a minor level. He played for the Army against a Public Schools team in 1920, and for the Royal Artillery against West Kent in 1925. In 1929, he played a match for Egypt against HM Martineau's XI in Cairo and his last recorded match was for the Army against the West Indies in May 1939 when he was 60. Statistics In his 77 first-class matches, Arthur Turner scored 4053 runs at an average of 34.05, including eleven centuries. His highest score was 124 for Essex against Warwickshire in 1899. Whilst he was considered an all-rounder at school, Turner's underarm bowling was rarely used at first-class level. In all he took fifteen first-class wickets, with a best innings bowling performance of 3/47 for Essex against Lancashire in 1898. After taking 14 wickets in his first three seasons, he took only one more first-class wicket in his career. Military career Turner was commissioned a second-lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 23 December 1897. He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa (1899–1900), where he was promoted to lieutenant on 23 December 1900, was severely wounded and mentioned in despatches. He returned to serve in South Africa in 1902, and received a substantive commission as lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 26 March 1902, attached to the 61st Battery. Following the end of the war, he returned home with the men of his battery on the SS Sicilia in October 1902, when the battery was posted at Woolwich. He later served in France during the First World War and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. He was also decorated with the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael