TOOGOOD, Peter
| Service Number: | 4602 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 58th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rosedale, Victoria, Australia, 25 June 1895 |
| Home Town: | Creswick, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 17 August 1961, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4602, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4602, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4602, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 58th Infantry Battalion, C Coy | |
| 22 Nov 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 58th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 58th Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 4602, 58th Infantry Battalion, per Devanha for Australia | |
| 15 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 4602, 58th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Peter was the youngest of six children of William Robert (Lampard) Toogood (born in Wiltshire, and Eliza Cowlee (born in Tarraville, Victoria). William deserted the family around 1900, and Peter and his brothers and sisters were taken into care on several occasions as neglected children. In 1903, Peter and his brother Percy were 'boarded out' to Mrs Ross of Cabbage Tree Creek in Creswick, Victoria
In 1915, he had daughter Dorothy (Mossie) with Harriet Florence Mason in Creswick, Victoria
Peter was a Labourer in 1915 when he enlisted in Ballarat, Victoria in the AIF as a Private (Service No: 4602). He served in France and was a Corporal when he was Discharged in 1919.
Peter returned to Crewick, Victoria and worked a Labourer. In 1921 he married Minna (Minnie) Harris (born 1894 in Creswick, Victoria) and they moved to Melbourne, Victoria. Peter worked as a Labourer and a Railways Employee, and he and Minnie riased sons Peter Laurence and Alexander James in Melbourne until Peter's death in 1961
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