On 2015-01-12 18:24:33 +0000, Chris Dickinson said: > >> The image from the link for Philip Dickinson doesn't seem likely, so I> >> checked the Passenger Lists to NY via Ancestry >> 16th Oct 1946 S.S.Queen Elizabeth left Southampton and arrived NY 21 Oct 1946. >> Passenger (listed in the Diplomatic section) Basil Dickinson, age 30,> >> Govt Official, British, born Seaford, living in London, n.o.k. wife:> >> Mrs Beryl H Dickinson, 4 Dover Park Rd, London, last in U.S. (NY) >> 1936.> Destination British Merchant Shipping Mission, Commerce Bld, >> Washington> D.C., 5ft 10ins tall, fair complexion, brown hair, hazel >> eyes >> >> Does that sound like the right man? > > > Ah, thank you. Yes, that's the right man. Hmm, I wonder why then he > didn't come up on the index I searched. > Strange that Barnes isn't there - I could have sworn that he said he > was travelling with him. Perhaps I got the wrong man and he was > travelling with the permanent secretary, Cyril Hurcomb. > > Odd too, that, he was last in New York in 1936. One of his stories was > that he had to leave ship (the 'New York') for family reasons when it > stopped off at Biarritz. I suppose that he would still have been on the > passenger list though, and maybe thus 'officially' arrived in New York. > > So annoying that I didn't pursue this while my father was still alive. > > Thanks again. > Chris Yes Hurcomb was listed and has the same destination as Basil. -- Tickettyboo

On Monday, 12 January 2015 19:17:44 UTC, Tickettyboo wrote: > On 2015-01-12 18:24:33 +0000, Chris Dickinson said: > > > > >> The image from the link for Philip Dickinson doesn't seem likely, so I> > >> checked the Passenger Lists to NY via Ancestry > >> 16th Oct 1946 S.S.Queen Elizabeth left Southampton and arrived NY 21 Oct 1946. > >> Passenger (listed in the Diplomatic section) Basil Dickinson, age 30,> > >> Govt Official, British, born Seaford, living in London, n.o.k. wife:> > >> Mrs Beryl H Dickinson, 4 Dover Park Rd, London, last in U.S. (NY) > >> 1936.> Destination British Merchant Shipping Mission, Commerce Bld, > >> Washington> D.C., 5ft 10ins tall, fair complexion, brown hair, hazel > >> eyes > >> > >> Does that sound like the right man? > > > > > > Ah, thank you. Yes, that's the right man. Hmm, I wonder why then he > > didn't come up on the index I searched. > > Strange that Barnes isn't there - I could have sworn that he said he > > was travelling with him. Perhaps I got the wrong man and he was > > travelling with the permanent secretary, Cyril Hurcomb. > > > > Odd too, that, he was last in New York in 1936. One of his stories was > > that he had to leave ship (the 'New York') for family reasons when it > > stopped off at Biarritz. I suppose that he would still have been on the > > passenger list though, and maybe thus 'officially' arrived in New York. > > > > So annoying that I didn't pursue this while my father was still alive. > > > > Thanks again. > > Chris > > Yes Hurcomb was listed and has the same destination as Basil. > -- > Tickettyboo Just to say that Tickettyboo has very kindly sent me the images.