David Charles Wish was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 18th July 1942. The family lived in Edgware, Middlesex, until 1947 when he and his parents emigated to Vancouver, Canada. Dave attended school there until he was eleven when he was sent back to the UK to continue his education as a boarder at the Royal Hospital School in East Anglia. According to his e-book He Sounds Much Taller: Memoirs of A Radio Pirate, this was not a particularly happy time for Dave. He felt like an outsider in both England and Canada. Dave Cash
Dave Cash, as pictured in ‘Who's Who in Pop Radio’, published by Four Square Illustrated. When he was sixteen, he returned to Vancouver and went to the King Edward High School with plans to attend university. However in 1962 his father died. Dave had also got his girlfriend pregnant. University was now out of the question - he had to go to work. Fascinated by radio, Dave was keen to get into broadcasting, but he also had to earn money.
