TOOGOOD, Walter George
| Service Number: | 1766 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Accidental (Injuries), Belgium, 5 November 1917 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1766, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1766, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1766, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney | |
| 27 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1766, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, WIA at Gallipoli Peninsular: Shell Explosion | |
| 12 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1766, 18th Infantry Battalion, embarked Portland UK per HT Star of England for Australia | |
| 1 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 63rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Sep 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 18th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Walter was the seventh of ten children of Henry (AKA Harry) Toogood (born in 1863 in Stratford, Victoria) and Jemima Craker (born in Omeo in Gippsland, Victoria). Henry had been arrested in 1909 for Desertion and Failure to pay support for his wife and children. He drowned in 1913. Jemima had moved to Broken Hill, NSW in 1912 and died in Walhalla, Victoria in 1918.
Walter was 11 years of age in 1908 when he and his brother Edward were arrested in Walhalla, Gippsland, Victoria for absconding from service as Farm Labourers for Farmer Isobel Barker at St Midas near Miner's Rest, Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Walter was living in St Kilda, Melbourne with sister Ruby Rubena when he enlisted in the AIF. He was Accidentally Killed at Paschendale in Belgium in 1917 and is buried at the White House Cemetery, St Jean in Belgium (Plot 3, Row Q, Grave 19)
It was not until 1921 that Walter's Next of Kin was located - his older brother Thomas William Toogood.