Richard (Dick) Sydney Turner was born in Sydney in 1916. He enlisted on 28 October 1939 and served with 6 Division Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps. After service in Africa he was captured by the Germans during the Greek campaign in June 1941, but escaped from the train en route to prison camps in Germany. He was initially sheltered by the Greeks, but this became too dangerous when Italian troops not only offered large rewards for the capture of Allied soldiers, but threatened to shoot anyone found harbouring Allies. Turner hid in the mountains south of Thessaly during the winter of 1941–1942. He then met Ioannis Kallinikos from the village of Livanates, who sheltered him over the next 18 months. Turner joined the Greek resistance in the summer of 1943, commanding a band of 50 andartes (armed guerillas). He later joined the British military resistance mission in Greece (Force 133). Turner was awarded the Military Medal for his resistance work in Greece; his citation includes ‘… He has displayed the highest qualities of courage, endurance and tact. During the absence of his OC on recces he has commanded the station with great success. He has himself carried out dangerous recces in civilian clothes that entailed passing through German controlled posts. He is at present living in civilian clothes in an area alive with the enemy’. On 17 December 1944, Turner was killed by Greek communist insurgents, during the civil war which broke out in Greece following the defeat of the Axis alliance; he was killed while in a truck on his way to Athens airport to be repatriated to Australia.