Noel Charles Turnour enlisted August 7, 1915 and served as a sergeant with the First Canadian Signal Company, likely due to his experience working as a telephone engineer before the war. He received the Croix de Guerre for bravery or military virtue on the battlefield.

After the war he returned to his job with the Saskatchewan Government Telephones and in 1920, he went to British Columbia to work in telephone construction. On March 17 of that year, his car went off the road and got pinned under it until another vehicle drove by and rescued him. He died 10 days later, leaving behind his wife, Sarah Maria Hawthorne and their 13-year-old daughter, Doris.

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