I lived in Ceylon during the 1950s and I agree that the bullock cart and the double decker bus could be in Colombo or perhaps Galle, where the roads are wider and there was less traffic.
Tunster, what was your father's name and his time of national service (presumably 1958 from your posts)? Then the ship he travelled on to and fro HK can be identified and hence the ports along the way to give a more definitive answer.
Hi, all I can tell you is my fathers name Brian Tunnicliff from Derbyshire was sent to do his national service in 1958. He travelled on the HMT Nevasa but he only ever said he sailed through the bay of biscay to Hong Kong. I have recently found a post card he sent to his parents from Cape Town South Africa. I went there in 1995 but he never mentioned to me that he had also been there. I am trying to find out where else he went and hoped this website and its members could help? Which it is. He served in the REME. I need to ask my relatives which regiment etc.
Any help anyone can give would be great.
My father is now in a care home suffering Dementia so it is difficult to get any info from him but I am still trying and hoping any info may just jog a little memory with him and bring a smile.
S.S. Nevasa going to and fro from Southampton and Hong Kong. There was a voyage from Southampton 3rd October 1958 sailing across the Bay of Biscay to Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Suez Canal and then to the Far East. Places visited for shore leave included Gibraltar, Malta, Port Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore. There may be more esp in Malaya. The duration of the voyage was about a month. What was the date of the Cape Town postmark? That would suggest bypassing the Suez Canal - was it on his way back to the UK?
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Not Hong Kong
Perhaps Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1950s Ceylon?
I lived in Ceylon during the 1950s and I agree that the bullock cart and the double decker bus could be in Colombo or perhaps Galle, where the roads are wider and there was less traffic.
Tunster, what was your father
Tunster, what was your father's name and his time of national service (presumably 1958 from your posts)? Then the ship he travelled on to and fro HK can be identified and hence the ports along the way to give a more definitive answer.
Tunster what was your father
Hi, all I can tell you is my fathers name Brian Tunnicliff from Derbyshire was sent to do his national service in 1958. He travelled on the HMT Nevasa but he only ever said he sailed through the bay of biscay to Hong Kong. I have recently found a post card he sent to his parents from Cape Town South Africa. I went there in 1995 but he never mentioned to me that he had also been there. I am trying to find out where else he went and hoped this website and its members could help? Which it is. He served in the REME. I need to ask my relatives which regiment etc.
Any help anyone can give would be great.
My father is now in a care home suffering Dementia so it is difficult to get any info from him but I am still trying and hoping any info may just jog a little memory with him and bring a smile.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Brian Henry Tunnicliff 1935
REME = Royal Electrical and Mechancial Engineers
S.S. Nevasa going to and fro from Southampton and Hong Kong. There was a voyage from Southampton 3rd October 1958 sailing across the Bay of Biscay to Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Suez Canal and then to the Far East. Places visited for shore leave included Gibraltar, Malta, Port Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore. There may be more esp in Malaya. The duration of the voyage was about a month. What was the date of the Cape Town postmark? That would suggest bypassing the Suez Canal - was it on his way back to the UK?
Cape Town postmark.
Hi David, I've uploaded a photo of his trunk with his regiment etc on it. I will route out the postcard as soon as I can find it.
Piccadilly Circus of Colombo
A Colombo resident mentions the roundabout and this part of town was known as Piccadilly Circus.