Kennedy St. Clair Hamilton Toovey was born in 1895 in St Helier, Bailiwick of Jersey, an island in the English Channel. He was the son of Capt. E. Hamilton Toovey and Ellen Le Seelleur, his wife, of 1836, Fell St., San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Native of Jersey (UK). Initially enlisted in the British Army as a Private in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He served at Sanctuary Wood (April-August 1916), the Somme (July-November 1916), and Vimy Ridge (April 1917), and was commended for gallantry as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Own Regiment during the third battle of Ypres in September 1917. His last known unit was the 166th Trench Mortar Battery, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).

2Lt Toovey died on October 15, 1918, from pneumonia while a prisoner of war in Frankfurt on Main. He is now buried in the Friedhof Niederzwehren, Niederzwehren, Stadtkreis Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

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