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Name:
James Reid McCosh
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Birth:
25 JUL 1916
Father:
William Waddell McCosh
Mother:
Louise Ethel Reid
Married:
Shelagh Madeline Garry
Children:
J McCosh
Born: 1942
Death:
12 APR 1942 Killed In Action By ME109 aged 25
Remarks:
24.05.1939 - joined RNVR, Clyde Division, List 2

24.08.1939 - 08.11.1940
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
[served 28.09.1939-11.1939 on HM Tug St Martin, Scapa Flow]

09.11.1940 - RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(02.1941) - no appointment listed

03.1941 - 07.1941 6th MGB Flotilla [HMS Hornet, Gosport]:

21.05.1941 - 07.1941
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 45 (motor torpedo boat)

25.07.1941 - late 1941 ?
torpedo training [HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth)]

late 1941 ? - 12.04.1942
HM MTB 44 (motor torpedo boat) (Felixstowe/Dover) (killed by fire from an ME109)

Above taken from:
http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersM2.html
McCosh Mound, OLD MONKLAND CEMETERY


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