Turner had passed his ARCO in July 1911 and is listed in the Royal College of Organists’ Calendar as organist at All Saints’ Colchester between 1910 and 1932, subsequently moving to a new post at St. Nicholas-cum-St. Runwald’s Church in the High Street. Ernie Turner regularly played the Moot Hall organ during WWII to entertain the troops. Leonard Simpson, his successor as Borough Organist and Desmond Pye, a Patron of the Friends of the Moot Hall Organ were others who volunteered in this way. During Turner’s tenure as Borough Organist it was noted that W. F. Kingdon had served the Borough in 1949. Kingdon had been a friend and assistant to Sir Walter Alcock, held the Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists (1896), and listed himself as holding a Bachelor of Music degree from 1906 whilst living in London, moving to Colchester in or around 1916. He appears to have been organist at St. Mary-at-the-Walls, now Colchester Arts Centre, from the early 1920s until 1950. He never officially held the post of Borough Organist, even if he occasionally deputised for Turner or Everett in that capacity. It is uncertain whether he was related to Edna May Kingdon, wife of the famous organist Percy Whitlock.