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MBE LSGC Royal Artillery Experimental Officer

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MBE, WW2 Medals, Army LSGC, Major District Officer Stanley Edwin Toghill, Royal Artillery, Military Experimental Officer, MoD Shoeburyness, 35 years in the Royal Artillery, 25 on the experimental Ranges.

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Origin: United Kingdom
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M.B.E., Military Issue, 2nd Type, Defnce Medal, War Medal, 1953 Coronation Medal, Army LS and GC, Major District Officer Stanley Edwin Toghill, Royal Artillery, Military Experimental Officer, Shoeburyness Range.

 

An unusual grouping to a man who went from Private to Major and District Officer in an Army Career spanning 35 years, with 25 of them on the Experimental Shooting Ranges, who had to be almost forced into retirement by reaching the age limit at 54.

 

Toghill was personally invested at Buckingham Palace on 10th March 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II.

 

Awarded in the New Years Honours 1959 for his service from 1946 to 1958 as Military Experimental Officer, Experimental Range, Shoeburyness

 

Citation: “Major Toghill is responsible for the planning and co-ordination of all trials and proof firings on these ranges. This task requires a comprehensive practical and technical knowledge of range work, good organising ability and the tact to reconcile the conflicting demands of trial officers, who are often senior to himself.

 

He had discharged those duties within outstanding success and must be given much of the credit for the ability of the Establishment to undertake, and complete on schedule, a programme of work of every increasing complexity.

 

He had shown a single minded devotion to the interest of the Establishment and remains cheerful and ruffled in the most trying circumstances.

 

When he reaches the age limit for retirement in September 1958 he will have completed a total of 25 years service on the Ranges.”

 

Stanley Edwin Toghill, was born on 8th October 1903 in Smethwick, Bath, Somerset. He attested at Whitehall aged 19 having worked as a Footman into the Royal Artillery on 2nd October 1923.

 

He was discharged from active service on 10th June 1940 Kings Regs Para 383 (XVII) KR (CO).

 

Given an Emergency Wartime Commission on 11th June 1940, he was later shown on the Army Lists as a Lieutenant (D.O.) District Officer.
1953 Coronation is confirmed on the medal roll being present as a Major.