TOOMEY, THOMAS PATRICK Rank: Private Service No: 62926 Date of Death: 28/11/1943 Age: 34 Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry 21st Bn. Grave Reference V. C. 45. Cemetery SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Timothy and Mary Anne Toomey, of Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand; husband of Eva Toomey. CWGC - Cemetery Details
No mention of him specifically in the unit history of events for that day – he appears on their Roll of Honour. I have bookended the day’s events from the on-line history http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-21Ba-c12.html All details were finalised during the 27th, with zero hour fixed for a quarter to three the following morning, by which time all the infantry were to be over the river and on the lateral road start line. (big snip) In all 17 prisoners were taken by A and B Companies after first light, making a total of 74 at a cost to the battalion of six killed and 27 wounded. According to the ROH in the book (details confirmed by CWGC) the other five casualties from 21Bn that day were: Captain Robert Edgeworth Horrocks 25200 Private Edgar William Cunningham 438957 Private Tane Keith Dyer 452839 Serjeant Ashley Rene Wilson 800232 Private Robert Arthur Atkinson 28100