TOOGOOD, Herbert Lawrence

Credit: CWGC

Corporal

2nd Battalion

Hampshire Regiment

Herbert was born 1891 in Carisbrooke to William Frederick & Risina (nee HORN) TOOGOOD. In 1901 the family were living in Sandy Way, Shorwell & by 1911 had moved to ‘Gladdices’ in Chale.

Herbert, aged 24, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 13th of August 1915. His body was never recovered or identified & so Herbert is commemorated by the Commission on the Helles Memorial to The Missing in Gallipoli Turkey together with 20,909 of his First World War comrades.

Herbert is also remembered on the County & Chale War Memorials. His brother George Edward also fell in the Great War.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.