TOUGH, Alexander
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Known as:
Alec or Sandy
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
12 Commando
'Special Boat Section'
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
6482290
Born:
Wednesday, June 6, 1917
Birthplace:
Stirlingshire
Died:
1995
Place died:
Cambridgeshire
Age:
78
Alec Tough joined the Metropolitan Police on 6 March 1939, later residing at the Police Section House in Crawford Place, Marleybone. He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 and served in No.12 Commando before joining the Special Boat Section.
Post war resumed his Police Service. 1958 Detective Inspector at Harrow Road Police Station; 1963 Superintendent, later in charge of 2 Area CID (North West); 1969 Commander and Head of the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad. Member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Commando Association newsletter 36 (1963).
The 1939 register covering St Marleybone.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 102 (1996).
Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
Newspaper article about his Police Service in the Harrow Observer 10 October 1969.
The book SBS in WW2, author G.B. Courtney.
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