TOOHEY, John Thomas
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 16 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 14 August 1875 |
| Home Town: | Point Piper, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Director of Public Companies |
| Died: | Suicide, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 7 April 1932, aged 56 years |
| Cemetery: |
South Head General Cemetery, Vaucluse, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Surry Hills Tooheys Ltd. Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 17th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James Matthew TOOHEY and Catherine Magdalene nee FERRIS
Husband of Mrs Nellie Mabel TOOHEY nee COSGROVE, Purfleet Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
Mr. John Thomas Toohey, a well known city business man, who was formerly a director of Tooheys Brewery, died in Sydney Hospital last evening. He had been found lying in the Botanic Gardens with a bullet wound behind his right ear.
BREWERY DIRECTOR'S DEATH.
SYDNEY, Friday.—An inquest was today conducted by the city coroner into the death of John Thomas Tooliey, 57 years, a former director of Toohey's Brewery, whose body was found in the Botanic Gardens with a bullet wound in his head.
A. H. Davies, a company director, and brother-in-law of deceased, said Toohey was wounded and gassed at the war, and since then he had been very excitable, particularly on the anniversary of the death of his daughter.
The coroner returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily mentally deranged.