TOOGOOD, Thomas Michael
| Service Number: | 4011 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 14 September 1883 |
| Home Town: | Box Hill, Whitehorse, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith/Farrier |
| Died: | Died of wounds, At sea (Indian Ocean (HMAHS Kanowna)), 21 December 1917, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Box Hill (Shire of Nunawading) War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Feb 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
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| 20 Feb 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Farrier Corporal, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 6 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Shoeing-Smith Corporal, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, GSW Head | |
| 16 Dec 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , RTA Melbourne per HS Kanowna | |
| 21 Dec 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 4011, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4011 awm_unit: 2 Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-12-21 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Thomas Michael Toogood (Service No:4011) enlisted in the AIF on 5 March 1915 and embarked from Melbourne as a Gunner with 2nd Field Artillery Brigade on 20 March 1915 on board HMAT A9 Shropshire. Gunner Toogood served in Gallipoli, France and Belgium, and on 20 March 1916 was promoted to Shoeing Smith Corporal. Corporal Toogood was at Ypres, Belgium when he was WiA on 6 October 1917, suffering GSW to his head. Evacuated to England, Corporal Toogood embarked for the RTA on 16 December 1917 on HS Kanowna, and died from his wounds at sea on 21 December.
Born in 1893 in Box Hill, Melbourne Victoria, Tom was the second of eight children of Henry Toogood (b1846 in Nunuwading, Melbourne, Victoria) and Mary McKean (b1857 in Nunawading, Melbourne, Victoria). Henry (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1881 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their children and Henry worked as a Labourer and Carter until his death in 1901.
Tom worked as a Blacksmith/Farrier in Melbourne, serving in the Militia and as a member of the Doncaster Rifle Club. In 1905 in Melbourne, Tom married Ethel Mary Ann Kibby (b1882 in Temora, NSW). Tom and Mary settled in Box Hill and Doncaster in Melbourne where they raised their family of five children and Tom was a Blacksmith until his enlistment in 1915.
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