Harold Purday Toon
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1931 to 1937. After school he worked as a clerk for the tobacco manufacturer John Player & Sons.
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The oldest son of Adrian and Evelyn May Toon of Innisfree 9 Park Road, Hucknall. Adrian was the head teacher of a local elementary school. His younger brother Dennis was born in 1923.
Old Elizabethans Service Roll: 2nd Lieu Harold Purday Toon was killed in action in the advance from Normandy to the Dutch frontier on 25th September 1944. 2nd Lieu Toon was a platoon commander of the Hallamshires. He was killed in attempting to force a way through enemy defences at Ruckevorsel (Rijkevorsel).
He joined the forces in February 1940 and while in the R.A.S.C he assisted in the evacuation from France and later in 1942 he participated in the landing in North Africa. Whilst serving in Tunisia he was recommended for an immediate commission but elected to return to England for an O.C.T.U as an Infantry Officer.
2nd Lieu Toon and his men received great praise for their part in the capture of Le Harve.
His colonel wrote of him " I have lost my best subaltern"
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