UNSOLVED MA - Atlantic Ocean, LIVING Male, WWII amnesia victim, Feb'45

[Cymro]

This may or may not be relevant but although the Cutty Sark was built in the 19th century, the reason there were no active merchant ships with that name is in part that she was (and still is) in existence during WW II.

In fact she was used for cadet training from 1936 to 1952 by the Royal Navy; hard to see how an American citizen could have been crewing her but it's entirely plausible that the dog tags had been accurate at some time (though she didn't go down in the north Atlantic)...

 

[madfrank]

This is a fascinating case and deserves a better, more accesible, title than the above. It should read MA MA Charles Jamison, Boston, 60? February 1945. “The living unknown soldier.”

The Man Without a Past: The Curious Mystery of Charles Jamison

There are a number of tragic cases where people lose all memory of who they are, and, for whatever reason, no one is able to help them recover their identities. However, few such stories are as complicated and uncanny as the long, long search for the real “Charles Jamison.”

One day in February 1945, an ambulance arrived at the emergency entrance of Boston’s U.S. Public Health Service Hospital. Inside was an unconscious, middle-aged man whose condition was so obviously grave that the nurse on duty dispensed with the usual formalities and had him immediately admitted. She asked the ambulance driver for the man’s name.

“Charles Jamison,” he replied. The man would not or could not say anything more about the patient. Then he disappeared, along with the ambulance, never to be heard from again.​

The rest of the story is at the link, and well-told.