You are in: Liverpool > History > Discover > The People > Memories of the Burma railway Philip Toosey By Paul Coslett Birkenhead’s Philip Toosey, a senior officer of prisoners of war on the Thailand ...
The son of a famous Merseyside war hero has backed a campaign to hunt down mementoes brought home by prisoners of war in Japan during the Second World War. Patrick Toosey, from Oxton in Wirral, has ...
A man who was the inspiration for Sir Alec Guinness's character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey was the senior Allied ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Philip Toosey was the epitome of a gallant soldier - upright, brave and fiercely protective of the men under his command. As lieutenant ...
AS a child, Julie Summers was brought up on stories of her grandfather, Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey, a hero of the second world war. He was at the Tha Maa Kham (or Tamarkan) prisoner-of-war camp in ...
A man who was the inspiration for Sir Alec Guinness's character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey was the senior Allied ...
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