Allan Dingwall was an apprentice shipwright boat builder before joining the Royal Australian Air Force – Air Sea rescue Unit. As a shipwright with the unit, he served six years permanently andeight years on reserves, a total of 14 years. On leaving the services he was employed as a Production Manager in the furniture industry beforereturning to boatbuilding. Later he was employed as a sales Manager in both manufacturing and building wholesale divisions. His pleasure in life has been to write a storyline that expresses his vivid imagination into pictures where the mind of the reader easily adapts to a moving cinema of pictures. Earlier in his life he found his creative pleasure when writing poetry and lyrics where the storyline needed to be told in alimited number of words in order to have the greatest impact. Allan believes stories are where the imaginative mind discovers its personal passageway into a world of make believe.
