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Thank you all so much. As soon as as I read the names Charles Edward Towgood and Marian Holloway I said to myself that's GREAT I have Percy's family all on my tree and he has 2 brothers.
That was so fast !!!!!!
Thanks again

Craig

....Sunday on November 14 it is worth thinking about them For men like Ken White Remembrance Sunday will be a day of special memories But he was one of the lucky ones he returned ........ came vividly to life again when Ken went back to his section of “Gold” beach one of the invasion points Ken who lives at Latham Avenue Frimley was one of a party of veterans taking part in an inaugural tour of the Normandy beaches and war graves with Summerfield Coaches of Southampton Although he had been on many of the battlefield tours organised by the Staff College Camberley Ken had never returned to his old landing beach at Courseulles so Summer-field’s boss Alan Rowe made a short detour and Ken was back in his own personal history He stepped on to the sand dunes of the beach once more and relived those war-time memories Ken was 28 years old at the time of the landings and was in charge of a platoon of 13 Bren gun carriers put ashore as part of 7 Bn The Hampshire Regt on D-Day-plus-seven They were part of 1 30 Infantry Brigade and the 62 men under Ken had sailed from Tilbury aboard an old American ship and disembarked on a flat-bottomed landing craft “It was a fairly clear day but it had been raining heavily” he said pointing to the beach front now a holiday area “We moved forward and joined up with the rest of the battalion just south of Bayeux The German Air Force was still attacking us but I was more concerned with the dead bodies in the sea “You had a curious feeling of elation despite the death because you were doing the job you were trained to do although there was still fear” Imminent Ken had been working as a junior assistant at Bournemouth public library but when war looked imminent early in 1939 he volunteered for the Coldstream Guards Later he transferred to the Hampshire Regt and was commissioned After the Normandy landings he fought with the regiment through France and after the war went with it to Palestine He left the Army in 1947 and qualified as a librarian before joining the Staff College in 1967 He retired last year but is still honorary museum curator at the college But as he stood on that beach at Courseulles his mind was back in 1944 “We didn’t know where we were going until we landed but we had been given a picture and as we came ashore we tried to match it up to the reality of the beach All the landmarks were there “Now coming back again is pure nostalgia It all comes back the picture is still the same as it was” By his side as he remembered was former Canadian Army sergeant >>>___Percy Towgood___ <<<now an official at the Canadian Embassy in London He had landed just little further along the same Normandy coast at Arromanches where the remains of the wartime Mulberry harbours are still to be seen They were two of the lucky survivors of the landings Ken lost about a third of his 62-strong platoon and as we toured the area he pointed out places where they had fought and fallen At Bretteville he remembered coming under heavy fire as they moved forward just behind the front line “It was not very pleasant knowing that someone wanted to kill you” - the Allied landings in June 1944 A German but the beaches are now holiday resorts Ken White had a mental picture of where he landed as a young Army officer the Second World War to a young French boy by a British soldier earlier on in the war but the boy knew that if the Germans found it he would be punished So he hid it beneath the bark of a tree This summer he returned to the tree and climbed to the top to find the badge still hidden where he had left it only much higher as the tree has grown in the 40 years since Further along the tour there were other ....

05 November 1982 - Aldershot News - Aldershot, Hampshire, England


Percy mentioned here.

I've had to piece bits of this account together as you can't actually view the page on fmp so some bits don't actually read well but I can't see the page to correct mistakes. It still makes for emotive reading.

He and Joan married in Hove in 1944, so he had certainly been in England during the war, then gone back to Canada, and returned in 1946 - per records posted above.

Can't see any earlier travel record, so it could well have been wartime travel with the army, and not a public record.



Another record of Percy, just for interest:

Percy Toogood
in the U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960
Name: Percy Toogood
Gender: Male
Departure Contact: Father Charles
Age: 14
Record Type: Cards
Birth Date: abt 1921
Birth Place: Toronto
Birth Country: Canada
Arrival Date: 8 Jul 1935
Port of Arrival: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Record has photo?: No

Father Charles ( "person in country where came from") is "of Teignmouth"

I can't read what it says on the line for details of "relative or friend to join there" - ie - USA.

Wonder whether he served on the Canadian forces in ww2 and met Joan and came back to marry t

Percival H. Towgood
in the East Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1705-1963
Name: Percival H. Towgood
Residence Date: 1946
Street Address: 3 Hove Place
Residence Place: Sussex, England
Parliamentary Division: Brighton and Hove

With Joan P Towgood

Name: Percival Towgood
Arrival Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1921
Port of Departure: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Arrival Date: 11 Jan 1946
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ship Name: Mauretania
Shipping Line: Cunard White Star
Official Number: 166267

Going to 3 Hove Place , Hove ,Sussex

This was the home of Joan and her parents

Ms
Area Redhill
First name(s) Joan Pauline
Postcode area RH
Last name Towgood
Postcode district RH15
Sex Female
Postcode sector RH15 8
Birth year 1925
County Sussex
Birth date 1925
Country England
Age 85
Record set England & Wales Deaths 2007-2021
Death year 2010
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Death date 22 Aug 2010
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Residence Burgess Hill
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Births Dec 1924
Lee Joan P Elliott Steyning 2b 368


Marriages Dec 1944
LEE Joan P Towgood Hove 2b 567
TOWGOOD Percival H Lee Hove 2b 567

Son George was also a BHC

Geo Twogood
in the UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
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Name: Geo Twogood
Gender: Male
Departure Age: 7
Birth Date: abt 1889
Departure Date: 16 Jul 1896
Departure Port: England
Ship Name: Parisian
Shipping Line: Allan Line
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Destination Port: Quebec, Canada
Master: Reg Barreth


http://britishhomechildrenregistry.com/Person/bhcInfo/82305

Name: Charles Towgood
Gender: Male
Age: 4
Relationship: Son
Birth Year: 1887
Father:
Charles Towgood
Mother:
Marian Towgood
Birth Place: Hoxton, London, England
Civil parish: Shoreditch
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter
Residence Place: London, Shoreditch, London, England
Registration district: Shoreditch
Sub registration district: Hoxton Old Town
ED, Institution or Vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 248
Folio: 84
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Charles Towgood
25 Head
Marian Towgood
22 Wife
Charles Towgood 4 Son
George Towgood
1 Son


Possibly Marian

Name: Mary Toogood
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Death Registration Place: Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
Death Date: Sep 1895
Inferred Death Place: London, United Kingdom
Volume: 1c
Page: 91

Charles Henry Twogood
in the Canada, World War I CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918
Name: Charles Henry Twogood
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1885
Birth Location: London, England
Residence: Toronto, Ontario
Military Date: 1914-1918
Spouse:
Gertrade Ethel Twogood
Next of Kin: Mrs Gertrade Ethel Twogood
Next of Kin Relationship: Wife
Regiment Number: 1102433



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Chas Hy Towgood
in the Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938
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Name: Chas Hy Towgood
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1887
Birth Place: England
Marriage Date: 26 Aug 1914
Marriage Place: York, Ontario, Canada
Father:
Chas Edward Towgood
Mother:
Marian Holloway Towgood
Spouse:
Gertrude Ethel Taylor

I wonder if Charles was a BHC

http://britishhomechildrenregistry.com/Person/bhcInfo/82303

From the tree:

Charles Henry Twogood
1887–1955
BIRTH 31 MAR 1887 • Hoxton, London, England
DEATH 19 JULY 1955 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gertrude Ethel Taylor
1895–1973
BIRTH 26 DEC 1895 • Rotherhithe, London, England
DEATH 9 MARCH 1973

Rose

A tree on Ancestry has the parents as:

Father Charles Henry Twogood
Mother Gertrude Ethel Taylor

Both born England.

Rose

1921:

Detail Source
Name: Percy Towgood
Gender: Male
Racial or Tribal Origin: English
Nationality: Canada
Marital Status: Single
Age: 0
Birth Year: abt 1921
Birth Place: Ontario
Residence Date: 1 Jun 1921
House Number: 421
Residence Street or Township: Lot 126 Andry A
Residence City, Town or Village: Scarboro
Residence District: York East
Residence Province or Territory: Ontario
Residence Country: Canada
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Charles Towgood
Father Birth Place: England
Mother's Name: Gertrude Towgood
Mother Birth Place: England
Can Speak English?: Yes
Can Speak French?: No
Religion: Anglican
Can Read?: Yes
Can Write?: Yes
Municipality: Scarboro
Enumeration District: 142
Sub-District: Scarborough (Township)
Sub-District Number: 1
Enumerator: Edwin B. Murdoch
District Description: Polling Division No. 1 - Comprising lots 33, 34, and 35, Concession A, south of Grand Trunk Railroad
Neighbors: View others on page
Line Number: 36
Family Number: 437
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Charles Towgood
34 Head England
Gertrude Towgood
25 Wife England
Sydney Towgood
5 Son
Edward Towgood
3 Son
Percy Towgood 0 Son

Rose

Hi Folks
I thought I had all the Canadian Towgood family but there's one chap I have thats not connected yet.
Percival Henry Towgood b.1921 Toronto, Ontario, Canada died 06 Nov 1994 Brighton, England ? married Joan Pauline Lee 14 Oct 1944 Hove, Sussex, England.
They had 2 boys Anthony and John.
Does any one have access to Canadian Census to see who his ancesters were.
Thanks in advance.

Craig