TOVEY, Norman Charles
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
6482251 and 326331
Born:
Friday, November 2, 1917
Died :
Thursday, May 31, 1962
Place died:
Nassau, Bahamas
Age:
44
Norrman Tovey was a Metropolitan Police Constable (PC 201W) serving in Battersea who volunteered for the Commandos as part of the 1st Police Intake of 1942.
29 July 1944 commissioned Second Lieutenant.
Member of the Commando Association.
1952 serving in the Kelantan contingent of the Police Force in Malaya.
Deputy Superintendent Norman Charles Tovey of Police Headquarters, Nassau, Bahamas, died 31 May 1962.
Sources
The 1939 Register covering Battersea.
Service number in a batch for the 1st Police Intake.
Tony Moore FRHistS, Police Historian.
London Gazette 36731, page 4576.
Commando Association newsletter 14 and Lost Legion List 11.
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index, probate date 31 October 1962.
Numerous newspaper reports on his death including the Daily Herald 16 June 1962 and the Daily Mirror 12 February 1963.
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