Records of Hugh Toye on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Hugh Toye in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hugh Toye and the Toye Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Toye Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Toye family tree.

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Toye Family Tree Databases

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Toye Forums

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Miscellaneous Toye Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Hugh Toye. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Hugh Toye

Hugh Toye

Colonel Claude Hugh Morley Toye MBE (29 March 1917- 15 April 2012) was a British Army intelligence officer who worked in India and Burma during World War II.

He enlisted in the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps and, as a Lance Corporal, was mentioned in despatches in the London Gazette 20th December 1940 under the heading “The names of the undermentioned have been brought to notice in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in the field. March-June, 1940.”

He received a wartime emergency commission into the British Army as a second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery after successfully passing the course at a Officer Cadet Training Unit on 10th May 1941.

Working in the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (India), Toye was tasked with interrogation of captured troops of the Japanese army and the Indian National Army. Toye's work recording the history of the INA, The Springing Tiger published in 1959, was one of the first authoritative histories on the army penned by a western scholar.

He was granted a regular British Army commission in the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 28th February 1945. and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) in the London Gazette 1st January 1947 where he is listed as a temporary Major, Royal Artillery.

After the war Toye worked with the British army in South-east Asia. He worked in various capacities in Burma, Laos and Hong Kong and Bangkok in between short spells in Europe. He earned a PhD from Nuffield College Oxford in late 1960s.

Toye retired from the army in 1972.

Source: Hugh Toye, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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