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Allan Tosh

I was born in April 1942. I was told by a friend of the family that I was conceived during the Greenock blitz!
My brother, Joseph Tosh 鈥� son of Joseph Tosh, the master butcher a well known Portonian who owned a butcher in Church Street. My brother left Highholm, which was then the Port Glasgow High School. He contributed to the war effort in a fine way. Even though he was underage he joined the navy working on motor torpedo boats. He did the run to the Orkney and Shetlands, moving special VIPs to the Islands for safety. It was known as the 鈥楽hetland bus鈥�. It was dangerous, as U boats would be waiting outside the channel. He was a first class torpedo man.

I did not see him again till the end of the war, when was three. I can remember back to the age of two. After the war he travelled all over the world as an electrician. He died of asbestosis, in Essex two years ago in August.

Gracie MacDonald Caldwell, she was my Aunt. She came back from Canada to work for the ATS. She was trained in the South of England and then she went over to France. That was at the time of the 鈥楧oodle-bugs.

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