Name
Arthur Wilfred Toovey
10 Mar 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Bedfordshire Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PINNER (PAINES LANE) CEMETERY
D. 366.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Arthur Wilfred Toovey was the son of Arthur Toovey, Solicitor, and Clara (nee Moodie).
He was born in Marylebone, London in 1893, and educated at Aldenham School. He became a liveryman of the Haberdashers Company in 1905 and was a solicitor. Arthur was married to Minnie Amelia Kent in 1911
Wartime Service
Commissioned on 25 Sep 1914 in 12 (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regiment as second lieutenant, promotion to Lieutenant (18 July 1915) and Captain (18 May 1918).
He had transferred to Bedfordshire Regiment later in the war and died in Western Hospital, Cardiff. He is buried in Pinner, Middx.
Additional Information
13 (Transport Workers) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment was nominally Infantry raised in Mar 1916 but was basically a Labour Battalion and was deployed to work in Docks at Boston, Ipswich, London, Harwich and Kings Lynn.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
