C.E. Turner Biography

a.k.a. Charles Edward Turner
The information is basically that Turner was born in Lancashire (just, see below), did a lot of illustrative work for the 'Illustrated London News' and, I think, 'The Sphere' during WWII and lived the later part of his life at Looe in Cornwall.

Charles Turner was a keen painter of landscaper and maritime views and was also a prolific illustrator of magazines, such as the Illustrated London News, from the 1920s until World War Two.

He was based in Liverpool and specialised in landscape and marine views. Proficient in watercolours and oils, Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in London as well as Manchester and Liverpool. Turner fought in both the First and Second World Wars, as a captain in the Fleet Air Arm, combining active service with service as a war artist, signing his work C.E. Turner. Inter-war Turner had developed series of illustrations for Thomas Forman and Cunard, becoming a ‘series of excellent postcards’.