Lieutenant, Royal Tank Regiment
Born: December 13th 1917
Died: December 1st 1943
Age at Death: 25
Killed, December 1st 1943
CWGC states that he was 26 at death
House Prefect 1934
School Prefect 1935
Head of House 1935
1st 15 1934-1936
2nd 11 1934-1935
Fives 8 1934-1935
Alan, the son of Ernest Toley and his wife Ethel (née Lawrence), was born on 13 December 1917 in Middlesex. At the College he was Head of House and captained the 1st XV, where he was judged as ‘a very fair’ skipper, with ‘very sound’ defence. During the war he became a lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment, fighting in the Middle East. He then joined Force 133 of the Special
Operations Executive, charged with diverting German forces from the defence of France by tricking them into believing there was a planned invasion of Greece. William Phillips was in the same unit. Alan was killed in an air crash in Greece, and is buried at the Phaleron War Cemetery in Athens.