Herbert Choice TOON

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TOON, Herbert Choice

Service Number:	155
Enlisted:	8 September 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Athestone, Winchester, England, 21 September 1888
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

8 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 155, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 155, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 155, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
21 Apr 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
13 May 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
21 Jul 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 48th Infantry Battalion
12 Oct 1917:	Imprisoned 1st Passchendaele
5 Jun 2019:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 155, 48th Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD
Date unknown:	Wounded 155, 48th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

AWM Summary

155 Sergeant Herbert Choice Toon of the 16th and later 48th Battalion. He enlisted in Perth on 16 October 1914 and embarked from Melbourne in December of that year. He was taken prisoner on 12 October 1917 at the Ypres Roulers railway during the battle at Passchendaele and spent the remainder of the war in numerous camps in Germany. He returned to Australia on 12 April 1919. In 1937, having changed his name to Toone, he was a member of the Australian Coronation Contingent which went to London for the coronation of George VI.

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