Michael John TOOGOOD

Michael John TOOGOOD Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

TOOGOOD, Michael John

Service Number:	SX8541
Enlisted:	11 July 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Depot Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 4 December 1909
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 23 November 1967, aged 57 years
Cemetery:	West Terrace Cemetery (General) Section: Eyre South; Path #: 10S; E/W: E; Site #: 10
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

11 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX8541, Adelaide, South Australia
11 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8541, 1st Depot Battalion
12 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, SX8541
13 Feb 1942:	Discharged Private, SX8541, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
13 Feb 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8541, 1st Depot Battalion

Help us honour Michael John Toogood's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography

NOK: Wife Mavis Lilian Toogood (d. 13/2/973 - 62 yrs)

11/7/1940 enlisted in Adelaide, SA

Private in 1 Australian Depot Battalion

13/2/1942     discharged from service

23/11/1967    passed away in Adelaide (57yrs of age)
buried in:       West Terrace Cemetery (general)
                     Section: Eyre South; Path #: 10S; E/W: E; Site #: 10
                     Grant Expires: 8/09/2025

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 16/5/2016. Lest we forget.

Biography contributed by Thomas More College

Michael John Toogood was born on December 4, 1909, in Adelaide, South Australia. He joined the Australian Military Forces on July 11, 1940, and was initally assigned to the 1st Depot Battalion as a Private, with service number SX8541. His wife Mavis Lilian was listed as his next of kin. Prior to the war he worked as a driver.

He served in the Middle East serving with the 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion from 2nd February 1941 until 5th Nopvember 1941 when he was returned to Australia medically unfit. He was hospitalised at Wayville with Vascular disease of the heart. He was officially discharged February 13, 1942.

At the age of fifty-seven, he passed away on November 23, 1967. He is buried next to his wife Mavis in the Eyre South section of West Terrace Cemetery.

(Source: NAA B883)

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia