1. Alfred Toye was educated at the Garrison School in Aldershot before enlisting into the Royal Engineers as a bugler in 1912 before being commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment during World War I Before joining the Army, Toye was an active Boy Scout, attaining the rank of patrol leader at the 2nd Aldershot Scout Troop.
Alfred Toye was the first member of his troop to become a King's Scout.
Alfred Toye was 20 years old, and an acting British Army Captain in the 2nd Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 25 March 1918 at Eterpigny Ridge, France, Captain Alfred Toye displayed conspicuous bravery and fine leadership.
Alfred Toye counter-attacked with 70 men and took up a line which he maintained until reinforcements arrived.
Alfred Toye then joined the teaching staff at the Staff College, Camberley.
Alfred Toye later achieved the rank of Brigadier serving with the 6th Airborne Division in World War II.
Alfred Toye retired to Tiverton in Devon where he died of cancer in 1955 at the Madame Curie Memorial Foundation at Tidcombe Hall in Tiverton and is buried in Tiverton Cemetery.
On 25 March 2018, on the 100th anniversary of the action in which he won his Victoria Cross during World War I, a memorial to Alfred Toye was unveiled in the Municipal Gardens in his native Aldershot.
Alfred Toye's VC is displayed at the National Army Museum, Chelsea, England.