Brenton Harold Turner, aka Jack Turner, (September 24, 1889 – October 6, 1989) was a war photographer from Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

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Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Turner was a soldier with the Second Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled a German-built 2" x 3" format camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

 with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone.

After the war, Turner returned to PEI, married and took up farming in Knutsford, Prince Edward Island

Knutsford, Prince Edward Island

Knutsford is a Canadian rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island.It is located southwest of O'Leary. Its area measures 77.09 km².-Famous residents:* Renowned photographer Jack Turner farmed in this community....

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External links

• A biography on a Government of Canada website.