No Doubt Wishful Thinking

[joerookery]

Everyone needs to stop laughing for just a minute. Okay I admit, I know nothing about this subject. I received this postcard, and on the back is a date, which did not make sense. Is it possible that this guy was part of a failed relief mission to DOA by air???

I have no idea at all . So if I have provided nothing else I have provided comic relief this morning. What is up with this guy? Who/what is he?

[Guest Rick Research]

Well. Leo Hagg may have WRITTEN it in Berlin-Neuk?lln on 20 May 1917 "in remembrance of the nice Africa trip Hamburg-America Line" but that doesn't mean the voyage hadn't taken place years and years earlier and he just sent this VERY nice civilian tropical traveling photo to a former cruise-mate.

Lemme go snuffle around and see what I turn up on Herr Hagg. :cheers:

[joerookery]

but that doesn't mean the voyage hadn't taken place years and years earlier

Of course, you are correct. I was almost embarrassed to ask this... almost..... :unsure:

[Guest Rick Research]

Hey, you never know. The weirdest things DID happen.

So far, Leo was never an officer in the navy, and was not a pre-war army officer.

I am assuming he was of that class, to have been a pleasure or business traveller pre-war. He also had enough money for a complete head to toe safari dining experience.

He lived in Berlin in 1917, so that's where I'm off to next.

[Guest Rick Research]

Hmmm. NOT listed in the Berlin directories of 1917 or 1914... so perhaps dated where he was visiting his un-named former travel companion, not where he lived.

Forgot to mention-- from the suitcase tag, he'd been to EAST Africa, since that's the German East Africa Line, Hamburg.

You've got a Golden Age Of Tourism/ Luggage Fanatic prize winner, there.

[joerookery]

Luggage Fanatic

:P :P

[Guest Rick Research]

Strange people collect... ODD things. You'd be surprised. Not like us. At all. :catjava: