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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.

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!

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?