TOOGOOD, Stephen Joseph
| Service Number: | 1545 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mitcham, Victoria, Australia , August 1893 |
| Home Town: | Streaky Bay, Streaky Bay, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Poochera, South Australia, 2 July 1928, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Streaky Bay Collie Men Who Have Answered The Call Roll of Honor, Streaky Bay War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1545, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1545, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1545, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 19 Mar 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, 1545, 10th Infantry Battalion, Deserted at Colombo |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Stephen Joseph Toogood (Service No:1545) enlisted in the AIF on 15 December 1914 and embarked from Melbourne with 10th Infantry Battalion 3rd Reinforcements on 19 February 1915 on board HMAT Runic A54. Private Toogood Deserted in Colombo on 19 March 1915. He had previously served in the Senior Cadets and in 1911 had been in the Navy for three years as Stoker when he Deserted from HMS Psyche in Port Melbourne.
The sixth of eight children, Stephen was born in 1893 in Mitcham, Nunwading in Victoria to Henry Toogood (b1846 in Nunwading, Victoria) and Mary McKean (b1857 in Nunwading, Victoria). Henry and Mary married in 1881 in Nunwading, Melbourne where they settled and raised their family and Henry was a Carter until his death in 1901.
Stephen joined the Navy in 1908 and from 1912 worked as a Labourer in Oaklands South Australia. Stephen had a tattoo on his left forearm - a cross and the inscription 'In memory of my father). Stephen was in Streaky Bay, South Australia in 1917 when he married Jessie Caroline Hunter (b1901 in Streaky Bay, South Australia). Stephen and Jessie settled at Poochera nr Streaky Bay where they raised their family and Stephen was a Farmer. Stephen died in 1928 and Jessie in 1975.