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Captain Charles Marquard Hammond Tooke (C.M.H. Tooke) served as a Captain in the military during World War I. Educated at St Andrew's College in Grahamstown, he worked for the Standard Bank before the war and later went on to live in Nairobi.

Captain Charles Marquard Hammond Tooke served in the South African Forces during World War I. While his full records do not explicitly specify a singular regiment, he served alongside the South African Infantry (with which his brother John Conrad Austin Tooke also served) and was heavily active with the Imperial troops deployed in the East African campaign. 

Captain Charles Marquard Hammond Tooke WW1 CAMPAIGN HISTORY    Captain Charles Marquard Hammond Tooke's World War I campaign history is defined by his deployment in the East African Campaign, a brutal and heavily disease-ridden theatre of war fought against German colonial forces.  Key Elements of His Campaign History

• The Theatre of War: Captain Tooke served with the South African Forces deployed to the East African Theatre. This campaign took place across modern-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique. Unlike the static trench warfare of the Western Front, this was a highly mobile bush war characterized by extreme terrain, vast distances, and ambush tactics. 
• The Imperial Connection: He operated alongside Imperial troops and local colonial units (such as the King’s African Rifles). The forces under South African General Jan Smuts sought to hunt down General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s elusive German forces.
• The Invisible Enemy: Like most soldiers in this specific campaign, Tooke's service would have been severely impacted by tropical diseases. In the East African campaign, casualties from malaria, dysentery, and blackwater fever vastly outnumbered combat casualties.
• Post-Campaign Settlement: His deployment deeply influenced his personal life. Following his military service in the region, he returned to East Africa as a civilian in 1919 to live and work as a bank clerk in Nairobi, Kenya. 

How to Retrieve His Full Specific Service Timeline Because specific, day-to-day war diaries for individual Captains are rarely digitized completely online unless they received high-profile gallantry awards, his exact movement timeline (such as specific transport ships or exact skirmishes) remains housed in national archives. If you are building a comprehensive family or historical record, you can request his complete, unredacted service file:

• South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Archives: You can contact the Documentation Centre in Pretoria, South Africa. Since he served under the South African Union forces, they hold the master paper sheets detailing his enlistment dates, medical records, promotions, and discharge papers.

Name: TOOKE, Charles Marquard Hammond

Birth Date: 14 Feb 1891 Goodwood, Cape Province, South Africa

Death Date: 7 May 1962 Cape Town

First Date: 1919

Profession: Bank clerk; later minister of religion in S. Africa

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Cape Town 15 Nov 1923 Anna Olivia Jane Officer b. 28 Sep 1897, d. 30 Aug 1865 Wynberg

Children: Arthur Gordon Hammond (6 Oct 1938 S. Africa)

Book Reference: Gazette, Red 19

School: St Andrew's Coll. Grahamstown

General Information:

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - Charles Marquard Hammond Tooke - Bank Clerk, Kenia House, Parklands   Red Book 1919 - Nairobi Literary Society - Hon. Secretary and Treasurer - C.M.H. Tooke Register of St Andrew's Coll. son of W.H.; Left Dec. 1907; b. 14.2.'91; Day. Form V-VI. Mat. 2.'07; Int. '08; B.A. (Cape) '10; Great War Capt. Standard Bank '11; Acting Manager Ladismith '32; Asst Advance Manager '32; res. Panmure 3 Glebe Rd. Rondebosch Cape '45. P.O. Box 40 Cape Town.