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comprehensive in 1967. Some years after retiring he moved to Letchworth, Hertfordshire (and
re-married aged 73!) where he was doing community work into his 80s. He was a native of
Northampton, qualified as a teacher in London, and was a science teacher at Bury High School,
Lancashire for several years up to the start of the last War. During the War he served in the RAF
Technical Branch as a Flying Officer, but remained in the RAF Volunteer Reserve Training Branch,
finishing with the rank of Squadron Leader. He returned to teach in Bury before coming to
Dudley.

362 Ernest BUNTING (1907-1980) (Inducted 23.6.1958; President 1967-68; left 23.6.1980 and died
that year.) Further Education, Technical College, later changed to Further
Education (Commercial) and then to Technical Colleges (Business
Studies). He was Head of the Department of Business Studies at Dudley
Technical College, but called Dudley & Staffordshire Technical College
when he took up the post. He was raised in Sheffield, the son of a scissor
grinder in a cutlery works, and his early career was as a clerk in the City
Treasurer’s Department. During his period in Dudley he wrote two
substantial textbooks, Clerical Duties (which went to a second edition)
and Office Worker.

363 William (‘Will’) Harold TURNER (1909-1988) (Inducted 17.11.1958; left in 1978/79.) Law,
Solicitor. Partner in the firm of Turner, Bayley & Co., Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, also Clerk
and Solicitor to the Upper Stour Valley Main Sewerage Board, Commissioner for Oaths, and
director of numerous companies. Born and raised in Dudley, he qualified as a solicitor in 1932
and started practising in his own name from his home address. About 1945 he joined in
partnership with Norman Bayley of the long-established law firm of Jesse Wright and Co. and
they changed the name to Turner Bayley & Co. Norman Bayley withdrew from the practice at
the end of 1959 but Will’s son Paul (club member #432) joined as a partner and father and son
continued as Turner Bayley. Will retired from active practice about the time he left the club in
1978/9 but remained a consultant to the firm for some years. He lived in Dudley until 1961,
then moved to Hagley.

364 Brigadier David MacMILLAN [but often written McMillan] (1901-1972) (Probably inducted
24.11.1958 but left Feb.1959 on being transferred to Coventry.) Officer in charge of Dudley
Salvation Army Corps but only very briefly. Like most Salvation Army officers he was moved to
new postings every few years. He was probably born in Scotland and started his vocation there.
However from the early 1930s, as Major McMillan, he was in east London, and then
Peterborough, then back to Uxbridge. In the 1940s he was officer in charge of Camborne corps,
before serving in the south London/ north Kent area, and then at Banbury. In the early 1950s
he was in Bedford before being promoted to Brigadier on moving to Liverpool. He then had his
brief spell in Dudley before being appointed public relations officer for the Midlands district,
based in Coventry. However within months he left to take up a similar position in Brighton and
was soon promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He remained in Brighton until his death. He named
his son after his great uncle Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a Scottish blacksmith who is generally
credited with inventing the pedal driven bicycle in the 1830s.