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LIEUTENANT EDWIN MARSDEN TOOTH

2nd Tunnelling Company


Born at Oxley, Brisbane, Queensland, the 28-year-old single Company Manager of Corinda, Brisbane, completed the ‘Attestation Paper of Persons Enlisted for Service Abroad’ on 5 July 1915.


A 27 May 1915 annotation in his file that he was taken on strength of the 5th Light Horse Regiment cannot be explained.


He named as his Next-of-Kin his father Sidney Herbert Tooth of Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland. This was later changed to his brother H.L. Tooth, Canada Cycle & Motor Co., Creek Street, Brisbane.


On 12 October 1915 he completed an Application for a Commission in the A.I.F, stating that he was born on 9 October 1886, had attended Normal State School and had 12 years in Business. He had been a member of the Cadets and a Rifle Club and was an Acting Company Sergeant Major in the A.I.F. He named as his Next-of-Kin his mother Emily Isabel Tooth of Corinda.


Personal details recorded included his height at 5ft 7½ins and weight at 11st 6lbs and noted that he had good vision in both eyes.


His appointment was recommended by the Colonel Commandant of the 1st Military District on 18 October 1915 noting that he be appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Engineers. On 29 October 1915 he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Mining Corps.


A second Application for a Commission was signed by Edwin on 17 February 1916 and recorded similar details adding that he had qualified for appointment as a 2nd Lieutenant in September 1915.

His promotion to Lieutenant on 1 January 1916 was promulgated in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette of 24 February 1916.

He finally signed the Attestation form on 17 February 1916, probably formalising records prior to embarkation.


Following a farewell parade in the Domain, Sydney, the Australian Mining Corps, of which Edwin was now a member, embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on 20 February 1916 on board HMAT A38 Ulysses.


The Mining Corps comprised 1303 members at the time they embarked with a Headquarters of 40; No.1 Company – 390; No.2 Company – 380; No.3 Company – 392, and 101 members of the 1st Reinforcements.


Ulysses arrived in Melbourne, Victoria on 22 February and the Miners were camped at Seymour while additional stores and equipment were loaded onto Ulysses. Departing Melbourne on 1 March, Ulysses sailed to Fremantle, Western Australia where additional members of the Corps were embarked. After a delay of about a month due to Ulysses requiring repairs following a collision with an uncharted rock when leaving Fremantle on 8 March, the Mining Corps sailed for the European Theatre on 1 April 1916. The men on board nicknamed her ‘Useless’.


The ship arrived at Suez, Egypt on 22 April, departing for Port Said the next day; then on to Alexandria. The Captain of the ship was reluctant to take Ulysses out of the Suez Canal because he felt the weight of the ship made it impossible to manoeuvre in the situation of a submarine attack. The Mining Corps was transhipped to B1 Ansonia for the final legs to Marseilles, France via Valetta, Malta. Arriving at Marseilles on 5 May, most of the men entrained for Hazebrouck where they arrived to set up their first camp on 8 May 1916.


Lieutenants Tooth, Smith and Phippard and 88 Other Ranks remained at Marseilles to unload machinery and plant from the transport B.1. into railway trucks.

This unloading party left Marseilles on 11 May and reached Hazebrouck on 12 May.


A ‘Mining Corps’ did not fit in the British Expeditionary Force, and the Corps was disbanded and three Australian Tunnelling Companies were formed. The Technical Staff of the Corps Headquarters, plus some technically qualified men from the individual companies, was formed into the entirely new Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company (AEMMBC), better as the ‘Alphabetical Company’.

LIEUTENANT EDWIN MARSDEN TOOTH 2ND TUNNELLING COMPANY BORN AT


Edwin was granted Special Leave from the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company from 7 to 13 September 1916.


According to his record card, on 12 November 1916 he proceeded overseas to France from the Australian Artillery Training Depot. This record also has an entry for 18 January 1917 stating he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps from 1st Field Squadron Engineers. No further clarification of these entries has been located. A 17 February 1917 entry states “previously seconded to A.F.C. from 1st Fld. Sqdn. Is now transferred.”


On 1 February 1917 Edwin reported sick and on 6 February he was admitted to the 14th General Hospital at Wimereux with severe pleurisy. On 14 February he embarked for England and was granted 14 days sick leave, which had been recommended at a Medical Board held in Boulogne. He proceeded overseas to France on 2 March 1917, rejoining the 2nd Aust Tung Co on 4 March.


Between 3 and 19 January 1918 he enjoyed some leave before rejoining his unit.


Wounded in action (gas) on 7 June 1918, he was admitted on 10 June to the 10th British Red Cross Hospital, not rejoining his unit until 4 July.

Extracts from:

FIELD MESSAGE BOOK

Lt E.M. Tooth & Capt G.I. Adcock 1918


France 4/10/18

The Manager,

Tillotson & Son Ltd

Dear Sir,

Yours of 26th ultimo to hand. Proofs are quite satisfactory & we would ask you to expedite the work, as unless our Sappers can post to Australia this month they will not arrive in Australia in time for Xmas.

Excuse papers and pencil as we are right in the fire here.

Yours faithfully,

E.M. Tooth, Lt

2nd Australian Tunnelling Coy

A.I.F. France


4/10/18

Capt de Grut

6 galls Rum – 2 days supply

E.M. Tooth, Lt

No. 2 Sect + ½ No. 1


4/10/18

C/O

18th Aux H.T.,

Roisel

The following G.S. Waggon report 5/10/18

20 G.S. Waggon at Bellicourt – sheet 62.B G4C 11? 2nd Aust Tun Coy 7.30a.m.

E.M. Tooth, Lt

2nd A.T.C.

In order that more efficient work may be obtainable from your wagon I would suggest that

either an officer or a Senior N.C.O. accompany wagon.

E.M. Tooth, Lt


5/10/18

Lt Halford

100 men & an Officer to be at Templeux 8 a.m. to work & load 40 Motor Lorries for you all day

25 G.S. Waggons reporting at G3d.1 at 7 a.m.

Australians have gone out! Can let you have a few more from here I think.

Come over after tea. I have some whiskey for you.

E.M. Tooth, Lt



He was appointed Adjutant & Quarter Master of the 2nd Aust. Tunnelling Company on 1 October 1918, and again enjoyed some leave from 5 to 25 October 1918.


After the Armistice, and with the unit all but disbanded, Edwin was granted leave from 14 February to 20 April 1919 with pay only to attend Tozer Kemsley & Millburn Ltd.


He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch of 16 March 1919.


Edwin was recommended for the Military Cross by Captain Leslie De Jersey Grut, acting Officer Commanding the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, and further recommended by the Lt.Col. Acting Chief Engineer, Australian Corps:


“For devotion to duty and gallantry in the Field on active service in France, extending over a period of 31 months. During this period in the Armentieres Sector, Ypres Salient, Nieuport Bains, Cambrai Salient and Amiens Sector he has shewn great ability and great disregard of personal danger. This Officer, when in charge of a party at Ribemont, preparing bridges for demolition under enemy shell fire was gassed.

From September 29th to October 12th, he was responsible for the supply of materials for forward roads in the Australian Corps Area in the Bellicourt Sector, and it was largely due to his energy, perseverance and total disregard of personal danger, that the work was so successfully carried out.”


On 26 March 1919 he applied for discharge in England stating as his reasons as:


“To proceed to America prior to returning to Australia for Educational & Instructional purposes. At present I am on Non-Military Employment with the Canada Motor Coy of Queensland & it is their wish that I remain employed by them until my return. So that employment is guaranteed. By going through America I shall have the opportunity of furthering my knowledge in General Engineering & Motor Industry.” The application was approved on 16 April 1919.


On 27 April 1919 Edwin was granted Non-Military Employment leave 17 February 1919 to 20 July 1919, cancelling, as from 22 April 1919, the previous leave granted. On 10 June 1919 he resigned his appointment in the A.I.F. in London.


Edwin Marsden Tooth was discharged in England (Appointment terminated) on 10 June 1919, having served 3 years 341 days, to study engineering in America, sponsored by his brothers’ company.


He had return to Australia by 19 October 1920 when he wrote from the Canada Cycle & Motor Company, Brisbane, to Base Records at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, acknowledging receipt of the “Mentioned in Despatches Emblems” and inquiring about his Military Cross, adding “It does not appear to me to be quite the fair thing for anyone to have to put in an application for something they have won.”


The Register of Tunnelling Company Officers – February 1925 - concerning Royal Engineers; Canadian Engineers; Australian Engineers and New Zealand Engineers recorded that in 1925 Lt. Edwin Tooth was working as Manager, Austral Motors Ltd., Brisbane, Queensland.

Edwin Marsden Tooth was made a Knight Batchelor on 1 January 1957, for Services to Philanthropy.

The Courier-Mail Tuesday January 1, 1957:


2 STATE MEN IN 15 NEW KNIGHTS

Honours for diplomat, Benefactor

TWO Queenslanders are among the 15 new knights named in the Queen’s New Year honours list for the commonwealth and States. They are:--

Sir Josiah Francis, who was a Member for Moreton for 33 years until 1955, and Army Minister from 1949 to 1955. He is at present Australian Consul-General in New York.

Sir Edwin Marsden Tooth, WELL-KNOWN PHILANTHROPIST, of Eldernell Avenue, Hamilton, Brisbane, for public and philanthropic services.

Of the 15 new Knights nine were recommended by the Commonwealth and six by the States.

There were no state recommendations for New Year honours from Queensland.

Medicine aid

Sir Edwin Tooth has been a leader of the motor industry in Brisbane for more than 40 years and is well known as a public benefactor.

In the last three years he has given away more than £100,000, with particular emphasis on medical research.

Last year he gave £35,000 to endow the Edwin M. Tooth Medical lecture Theatre and Research Laboratories. A double-story building to house them is under construction.

On December 5 he gave another £20,000 for medical education to finance the annual appointment of a guest professor of world eminence within the Brisbane Hospital.

War service

Sir Edwin is descended from a pioneering family. He was born in Brisbane and educated at the old Normal School.

During service with the Australian Mining Corps in World War I he was awarded a Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches.

Sir Edwin is chairman of directors of Austral Motors Ltd. Abridged



Edwin Marsden Tooth died on 27 May 1957 aged 71.

The Courier-Mail Tuesday May 28, 1957:

FUNERALS

TOOTH, Sir Edwin—Relatives and Friends of Lady Tooth, of ‘Farsley’ Edernell Avenue, Hamilton, are invited to attend the Funeral of her beloved Husband, Sir Edwin Marsden Tooth, to leave St John’s Cathedral, Ann Street, City, on conclusion of Service commencing at 11 o’clock, This (Tuesday) Morning, for the Mt Thompson Crematorium. No flowers, by request.

JOHN HISLOP & SONS PTY LTD


The Courier-Mail Tuesday May 28, 1957:

OBITUARY

SIR EDWIN TOOTH DEAD, AGED 70

In 3 years he gave £105,000

SIR EDWIN MARSDEN TOOTH, who died yesterday, aged 70, was one of Queensland’s most generous citizens.

In the last three years he gave more than £105,000. Sir Edwin was made a Knight Bachelor in last New Years Honours List.

He had been chairman of directors of Austral Motors for 34 years.

No individual Queenslander has applied more generously the principle of treating personal wealth as a public stewardship.

Hospital aid

Last year he gave £35,000 to the Brisbane and South Coast Hospitals Board to endow the Edwin M. Tooth Medical Lecture Theatre and Research Laboratories.

On December 5 he £20,000 gave another to finance the annual appointment of a guest professor of world eminence within the Brisbane Hospital.

He also made other gifts amounting to more that £50,000 to educational and religious organisations, including the Queensland University and St John’s Cathedral.

Last month he gave £5000 to Brisbane legacy—the largest individual donation it had ever received.

Pioneer family

Sir Edwin was descended from a pioneering family. He was born at Corinda and educated at the old Normal School.

He entered commercial life before World War I as a member of the South Australian Mortgage Company.

Twelve months later he started as a salesman in the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency, which had offices where Primary Producers’ Building now stands, at the corner of Adelaide and Creek streets.

He served for four years in the A.I.F. in the First War, and held commissioned rank in the Tunnelling Company. He was awarded the Military Cross, and twice mentioned in despatches.

Founded firm

In 1923, in Desmond Chambers in Adelaide Street, Sir Edwin formed Austral Motors Pty Ltd., when approached by the Dodge factory to distribute Dodge vehicles in Queensland, Northern N.S.W. and the Northern Territory.

Sir Edwin and his company prospered. They obtained the franchise for De Soto in 1928, for the English Standard in 1931, and for Chrysler-Plymouth in 1932. The Ferguson tractor agency was taken up in 1949.

Last year he formed a public company, Austral Motors Holding Ltd., and as its chairman of directors was head of the Austral-Farsley-Stradbroke group.

His home at Eldernell Avenue, Hamilton Heights, is recognised as one of the finest in Brisbane.

Sir Edwin and Lady Tooth had no children.

Sir Edwin had been ill for the last month, but left St Martin’s Private Hospital less than a fortnight ago. He had been attended at his home by three nurses.

“Great man”

Associated with Sir Edwin since he founded Austral Motors have been Messrs D.B. Duncan (director) and H. Ash (director and secretary).

Mr Duncan said yesterday: “Sir Edwin, was a great man. He devoted all his time and energy to the motor industry.”

The president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia (Mr Leon Trout) said: “Sir Edwin was a generous benefactor to many worthwhile charities and public spirited organisations. Often his gifts were anonymous.

“He proved that Australia is a land of great opportunities to people with imagination and a love of hard work.”

“Sir Edwin’s cortege will leave St John’s Cathedral for the Crematorium after a service starting at 11 a.m. to-day. The service will be conducted by the Dean of Brisbane (the Very Rev Denis Taylor).




HLIEUTENANT EDWIN MARSDEN TOOTH 2ND TUNNELLING COMPANY BORN AT e is commemorated at the Brisbane Garden of Remembrance.






























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Towards the end of 1957 it became evident that there was a need for an Anglican boys' school in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. The opportunity arose after the death of Sir Edwin Marsden Tooth, a religious man with a genuine interest in education. Sir Edwin bequeathed sufficient money to the Anglican Diocese to make the building of "a boys' grammar school" a reality. The land was purchased in 1958 for £45,000. The School's administration building is named in honour of Sir Edwin.

Origins of the School House Names

School House (colour White) named for Tooth (white) (T) Sir Edwin Marsden Tooth, a Brisbane Company Director and philanthropist whose bequest was responsible for the School's formation.



From the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland:


Lota House, now known as Edwin Marsden Tooth Memorial Home, Lota

Description:

LLIEUTENANT EDWIN MARSDEN TOOTH 2ND TUNNELLING COMPANY BORN AT ota House was built in the 1860s in Brisbane's eastern bayside suburb of Manly - Lota. The house is rare as the oldest surviving residence in the Manly-Lota area, remains one of few 1860s residences of its type to survive in Queensland. It is a rare example of 1860s Georgian-influenced domestic architecture and was built for William Duckett White.

Description:

Lota House is now owned by the Anglican Church. To fund the purchase the Church utilised a legacy from Sir Edwin Tooth combined with a government subsidy and on 27 July 1963 Lady Tooth opened Lota House - Edwin Marsden Tooth Memorial Home as accommodation for the aged. Three accommodation blocks were erected on the property at that time, and several new facilities were opened in 1991.


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Australian Dictionary of Biography – online:


TOOTH, Sir EDWIN MARSDEN (1886-1957), businessman and philanthropist, was born on 9 October 1886 at Sherwood, Brisbane, fourth of five children of Sidney Herbert Tooth, grazier, and his wife Emily Isabella, née Hassall, both of whom came from New South Wales. His grandfather was William Tooth, his great-grandfather was Rev. Thomas Hassall, and his great-great-grandfather was Rev. Samuel Marsden. Educated at Brisbane Central School, Edwin spent a year with the South Australian Land Mortgage & Agency Co. Ltd as a salesman before joining the Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd.


Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 July 1915, Tooth was commissioned in October and promoted lieutenant in January 1916. He reached the Middle East in April and in the following month was sent to the Western Front where he served with the 2nd Tunnelling Company. In June 1918 he was gassed. From 29 September to 3 October that year he took charge of roadwork near Bellincourt, France, while under heavy fire and won the Military Cross. He was also mentioned in dispatches (1919). His A.I.F. appointment terminated in England on 10 June 1919. On his way home to Brisbane, he studied the motor industry in the United States of America.


In 1923 Tooth obtained the dealership for Dodge Bros motorcars to distribute its vehicles throughout northern New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. He formed Austral Motors Pty Ltd in 1924 and established his business in Boundary Street, Spring Hill. Queensland motorists readily accepted Dodge cars because they were solid enough to withstand long distances on outback roads. From 1928 Tooth's company expanded to include De Soto, Chrysler, Plymouth and Standard Motor Co. vehicles, making him a leader of the motorcar industry in Brisbane.


At St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, on 24 April 1935 Tooth married with Anglican rites Elsie Marguerite Fuller. The couple settled into a large house in Eldernell Avenue, Hamilton, built in 1869 for William Hemmant. They renamed it Farsley, after Samuel Marsden's birthplace in Yorkshire. Tooth formed several other companies—Stradbroke Motors Pty Ltd (1928), British Tractor & Implements Pty Ltd (1948) and Farsley Motors Pty Ltd (1952). Business boomed after World War II and he opened new showrooms in the suburbs. In 1956 Austral Motors was converted into a public company, with Tooth its chairman.


Towards the end of his life, Tooth became involved in philanthropy. He gave generously to medical, educational and charitable institutions. In 1956 he contributed £35,000 to the Brisbane Hospitals Board for the construction of the Edwin M. Tooth Lecture Theatre and the Edwin M. Tooth Laboratories for Research in Medicine at (Royal) Brisbane Hospital. Although the new facilities belonged to the board, they were made available to the University of Queensland's medical school. He subsequently endowed the Edwin Tooth scholarship for postgraduate study in medicine. In addition, he provided £20,000 for a visiting professorship at Brisbane Hospital to enable an eminent teacher of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics and gynaecology to work there each year.


A member of the Brisbane, Tattersall's and United Service clubs, Tooth enjoyed fishing, shooting and golf. He was knighted in 1957. In April that year he donated £5000 to the Legacy Club of Brisbane. Suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, he died of chronic nephritis on 27 May 1957 at his Hamilton home and was cremated. His wife survived him; they had no children. His estate was sworn for probate at £719,852. From this sum he bequeathed about £500,000 to charities and educational institutions run by the Anglican diocese of Brisbane, including provision to establish the Edwin Marsden Tooth Memorial Home for the aged. Further money was left to the University of Queensland for an institute of agricultural research. In 1962 the diocese purchased Farsley as a residence for the archbishop.


Select Bibliography

North Brisbane Hospitals Board, The Royal Brisbane Hospital Centenary (Brisb, 1967); R. L. Doherty (ed), A Medical School for Queensland (Brisb, 1986); J. H. Tyrer, History of the Brisbane Hospital and its Affiliates (Brisb, 1993); Church of England, Diocese of Brisbane, Church Chronicle, 1 Apr 1962, p 8; Austral Motors Holding Ltd, Annual Report, 1972/73; Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 1 Jan, 13 Apr, 28 May, 16 Oct 1957. More on the resources

Author: Elizabeth Davies

Print Publication Details: Elizabeth Davies, 'Tooth, Sir Edwin Marsden (1886 - 1957)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 403-404.



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