Richard Todd gets rolled out every D-Day for his part in the operation at Pegasus Bridge and subsequent acting in the film "The Longest Day" with very little information about his family and Irish roots.
The following is a cursory run through some of the immediate family details.
Richard Todd
Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin on the 11th June 1919.
A scanned image of his birth entry isn't available but a text version is.
His mother is listed as Marvilla Todd, nee Agar-Daly; his father is listed as Captain Andrew Palethorpe Todd, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) with an address listed as "Camp, Phoenix Park".
The birth informant is listed as Emily Elizabeth Lundy with an address at 89 Lower Baggot Street. The address was a Private Nursing Home and Emily Lundy appears to have worked there.
Andrew Todd and Marvilla Agar-Daly married in Belfast on the 21st September 1915. He was listed as Andrew William Palethorpe Todd a T(emporary) Lieutenant in the RAMC, aged 23, with an address in Dublin. She is listed with no occupation, aged 23, with an address in Belfast.
Andrew Todd
Andrew William Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin on the 6th July 1892. The address listed was 16 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. His father Andrew Todd (1854- 1920) is listed as a Barrister; his mother is listed as Ellen nee Palethorpe.
1901 Census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Fitzwilliam/Hatch_Street_Lower/1306720/
1911 Census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/43616/
18 years old and a student of medicine. Listed with his mother and two servants. The sister is not present.
His father is in Dungannon on the night of the census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Dungannon/Georges_Street__South_Side/868419/
The father died 16th June 1920. His death is registered as being in Ivanhoe Private Hospital (this was on Lansdowne Road, Dublin). The informant was Henry Kenny with an address of 36 Westland Row.
Rugby
Prior to WW1, Andrew Todd played Rugby for Ireland, facing Wales once and France twice in the 1913-1914 season.
http://en.espn.co.uk/ireland/rugby/player/2394.html
Medical Studies
He appears to have studied medicine in Trinity College Dublin and to have graduated in 1915.
He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Temporary Lieutentant on the 25th August 1915.
Easter Rising
Not too sure if Andrew Todd was in Dublin at the time of the Easter Rising but he appears to have signed an October 1916 dated document relating to one of the wounded members of the Irish Association of Volunteers Training Corps (IAVTC).
The Todd family lost property in The Metropole Hotel when it was burnt out during the Rising. A number of claims were made by the family to The Property Losses Committee.
World War 1
Todd was posted to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) and to have landed in the theatre of war in October 1915.
He was awarded his Military Cross (MC) for bravery while under fire with the award appearing in the London Gazette in October 1918 with his rank as Temporary Captain. No details of the unit he was with or the location of the action; still to find when he was promoted to Temporary Captain.
In May 1919, he relinquished the rank of Acting Major and became a Temporary Captain having been noted as a Temporary Major from February 1918 (but not for the purposes of pay).
World War 2
Andrew Todd was a Major in the RAMC when he died in March 1942 at the age of just 49.
His obituary fills in some of the details of his life between WW1 and WW2.
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