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Mar 29, 1917 Died on 15 Apr 2012 (aged 95)
British Army intelligence officer
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About Hugh Toye
- Colonel Claude Hugh Toye MBE (29 March 1917- 15 April 2012) was a British Army intelligence officer who worked in India and Burma during World War II.
- Working in the Combined Services Directorate of Intelligence, Toye was tasked with interrogation of captured troops of the Japanese army and the Indian National Army.
- Toye's work recording the history of the INA,The Springing Tiger published in 1959, was one of the first authoritative histories on the army penned by a western scholar.
- After the war Toye worked with the British army in South-east Asia.
- He worked in various capacities in Burma, Laos and Hong Kong and Bangkok in between short spells in Europe.
- He earned a PhD from Nuffield College Oxford in late 1960s.
- Toye retired from the army in 1972.
