Advocate for veterans

drivers of a proposed $40 million high-rise development on the RSL’s Esplanade site and helped create the Pensions, Advocacy and Welfare Service. Current president Buster Todd said PAWS was Mr Turner’s legacy.

“It was his drive and tenacity about the welfare of veterans young and old that led to the service,” he said.

Mr Turner has been privately cremated and a memorial service will be held at the Cairns cenotaph opposite the RSL club next Friday (October 7) at 5pm.

A LONG-standing president of the Cairns RSL has died after a six-month battle with cancer. Peter Turner (right) died last Saturday in Cairns at 71. The Vietnam veteran joined the Cairns RSL sub-branch committee in 1996 and was elected president in...