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The Roll lists his address as Alwalton. (It also records the death of his brother Frederick). It misrecords Charles' rank as Lance Corporal.
(CWGC records that Private Charles James Toogood, regimental number 180682, died aged 29 on 11/11/1916 serving in 47th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry, and is commemorated on Vimy Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Joseph and Mary Jane Toogood of Alwalton, Peterborough.
The birth of Charles James Toogood was registered in the Peterborough District in 1887. On the 1891, 1901 and 1911 census he was living with his parents in Alwalton, which was given as his place of birth.
Charles' attestation form on the Library and Archives Canada website records that he was born on 23/3/1887 in Alwalton, and that he was living in British Columbia when he enlisted on 8/11/1915, giving his next of kin as his father Joseph Toogood in Alwalton.
When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 25/11/1916, it was reported that Charles' parents had received a letter from the Chaplain of his Battalion, informing them that their son was killed shortly after midnight on 10th/11th November 1916, and that he had been buried near the spot where he fell near Courcelette. The newspaper reported that Charles had left for Canada in January 1914 to take up fruit farming with his brother Frederick. It stated Charles had crossed to France with his Battalion in August 1916).