Sir Brigadier Philip Toosey CBE DSO TD JP
(1904-1975)
British Army Brigadier, Justice of the Peace, Territorial Decoration recipient, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (from 1941), Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (from 1955), High Sheriff of Lancashire (1964-1965), and Knight Bachelor (from 1974)
Died aged 71
Wikidata WikipediaBrigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a Lieutenant Colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway as later fictionalized in the book The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, and since adapted into the Oscar-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer, Lt Col Nicholson. Both the book and film outraged former prisoners because Toosey did not collaborate with the enemy, unlike the fictional Lt Col Nicholson.
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Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey lived here 1910-1932 Merchant Banker; High Sherrif of Lancashire; President Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Senior Officer, Tamarkan, Siam 1942-1945 Far East POW Camp made famous by Sir Alec Guinness in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai
Rose Mount, Oxton, United Kingdom where they lived