His name is Anthony Evan Dossitt, known to most as "Tony" and he worked on building sites for all of his working life. He was a wonderful Dad, a great husband to my Mum and a Granddad who will always be remembered for doing things to amuse and entertain the children! It isn't often you see a grown man of over 40 dancing around in a garden in the rain holding up a Barbie child's umbrella whilst singing "I'm singing in the rain." He spent years giving up his time for the Scout movement and on a Saturday morning to run children's football clubs for preschool age children, he had a love for walking and for taking photos of the building sites he worked on.
However he had a horrible illness which he battled incredibly bravely, right up until the end.
Specifically I want to find people who worked with my Dad between 1982 and 1985 at the Portsmouth Naval Dockyard (where the Mary Rose is housed amongst others) and the Naval Hospital at Haslar in Gosport. Did you work with him? Did you know someone who did? It was an important time in his life and I want to know more about it...
If you can help at all, either with these specific dates or because you knew him at all then please either leave me a comment with an email address or email me at (suzi. shaw @gmail .com just remove the spaces) and I promise we will be in touch...
I shall keep this up to date with news, pictures and information from my search.
Suzi, the day you posted about this blog on MZ I had nursed a patient with mesothelioma for the last few hours of his life and tended to him after his death. I hope you raise awareness of this horrible cancer and manage to find people who knew your wonderful dad. xoxo
ReplyDeleteThank you Colette. It truly is so horrible. It sounds wrong, but I am glad that the patient had you to nurse him through the end, it's so horrible.. I saw my Dad at the end and it is not something I would wish on my worst enemy, there was nothing left of the amazing man who was and always be my Hero.
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