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Interesting PFF thank you for the link to the article.
The card found with him issued to a Charles Jamieson ( surname spelling from article) gave a DOB as April 1898.
I don't have ancestry.com anymore but this one would be a good sleuth for those that do!
I'll nose around and see if I access any census records online for that DOB and name.
In February 1945 a seaman was found floating in the Atlantic with a card reading Charles jameson-he had amenesia and the identity could not be confirmed-he died 30 years later-still an unknown.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7qr-CWmQebc/SpmfLSVKeaI/AAAAAAAAFMI/Q9fRTWXIPHA/s1600-h/mrx2.jpg
I have an ancestry.com account and am looking. 1898 was a bit old to have served in WWII but who knows?
Woot!
Found a link with a picture of Patient X who died in Boston?
http://unsolveditn.blogspot.com/2009/08/charles-jamieson-ma-1975-was-amnesia.html
no James Hamilton listed on ABMC or CWGC Somestimes Civilians listed on websites
A seaman James Hamitlon was lost in USMM_but that was in 1942 -not 1945!
Webrocket maybe you might wish to place message at USMM message board:
http://www.usmm.org/shipmate_search.html
"Does Anyone know of a Seaman named James Hamilton? Possible the unknown
"John Doe" who was found in the Atlantic in Feb 1945 with a card reading "Charles
Jamison" and died 30 years later still an amenisa case?" {Link to articles of unknown patient}
:twocents::twocents:
1898 is old for active duty - he'd have been 43 when the US entered the war. Wikipedia says that all men aged 18 - 65 had to register and "later" (versus 1941) legislation made all men up to 45 liable for immediate induction. A person born 1898 would have been on the border line for this. Of course, as a merchant marine he'd have been a civilian of sorts, albeit in a combat zone, meaning he'd not be subject to the same restrictions.