the materialization of W. T. Stead. Turner also claimed to have experienced apports and spirits in his own home. Later life In retirement, he was the chairman of the Alliance Franco-Britannique, a director of the North Borneo Chartered Company and the Manchester North Borneo Rubber Company, and chairman of North Borneo State Rubber. He wrote two books of military history, on Napoleon's invasion of Russia (The Retreat from Moscow and Passage of the Beresina) and on the Franco-Prussian War (From Weissenburg to Sedan), and a volume of memoirs, Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life (1912). Family Turner married first, in 1865, (Emma) Blanche Hopkinson. His first wife died in 1899, and on 23 August 1902 he remarried at Battersea to Juliette Elizabeth Marie Whiting, only daughter of Henry Whiting. He died on 20 December 1918, survived by two sons and a daughter. Publications The Retreat from Moscow and Passage of the Beresina (1898) From Weissenburg to Sedan (1899) Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life (London: Methuen, 1912) References Further reading "TURNER, Maj.-Gen. Sir Alfred Edward", in 1842 births 1918 deaths Graduates of Addiscombe Military Seminary British Army generals British spiritualists Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Parapsychologists People educated at Westminster School, London Royal Artillery officers