There were a number of training units that recruited young nurses as code breakers, a technique picked up from Mr. Marks in MI6. I heard from Professor Abbott that Jess didn't complete her training at RNSH when she was there but did some years later in Adelaide. Jess's name appears on the list of nurses on the RNSH course.
Jo or Jessica Harkness's name?
Not sure what you're looking for, but Broken Rites might be a start?
Still looking through but the Lionel Leane interview in the second volume sticks out for me with the mention of finding a hypodermic syringe nearby.
Nothing is confirmed for me about his death. There's a lot of conjecture and opinion within the volumes of the interviews and letters. I think tunnel vision had derailed much of the investigation, more so than any possible conspiracy. Someone died. We don't really know why or who he is. An imputation is made that he was known to Jessica Harkness and is the father of her child. Whether they met that fateful day has been taken to her grave. Her surprise at seeing the bust would suggest not to me, but the possibility should not be discounted. I have taken a view that the only way to identify him now is simply to follow every lead and every association, search every record, find names, search them. When I first came across this mystery a few years ago, I had thought that the evidence would give us clues. But the brand of matches, cigarettes, clothes or shoes hasn't given us anything solid. There's no magic list of people who bought these items, no list of train passengers on the interstate trains, no passenger arrival lists, nada. The post mortem has many details. One thing I can deduce is that he's probably right handed as the nicotine stains are on the fingers of his right hand. This would suggest that he is unlikely to be whoever wrote the HC Reynolds ID card, however the prospect of him being a merchant seaman lead me to discover other mysteries such as the woman allegedly trying to fence one of the lost crates of Peking Man fossils at the top of the empire state building in the 70's who alleges that 2 people had been murdered in relationship to the smuggling of these artifacts. Keeping an open mind is probably the hardest thing to do in any process of investigation as impatience encourages our minds to want to cut to the quickest path of resolution, and thus we will discount the improbable and categorize the too hard as far fetched or deluded, until we're forced back to those paths once the easy path hits the dead end. Just as I originally discounted Thomas Ambrose Keane of Williamstown, because he was still alive well after 1948. But something kept nagging me about that old army cadet record. It was the handwriting of whoever filled out his details. The T Keane written upon that form is nearly the same as the T Keane written upon that tie in the suitcase found at Adelaide railway station! So an intriguing possibility is that SM had items gifted or bought from this T Keane. Will searching T Keane's associates yield results? Too early to tell, and hampered by the lack of digitised records and photographs, it will be laborious but is probably the easiest lead, considering that if this mystery does have something to do with espionage then T Keane of Williamstown Victoria also was involved in the same communist party apparatuses as Horace Pile who was sent to Adelaide 2 years after SM's death to spy at Woomera. Why might Pile be Important to this story? He is related via marriage to Harkness.
What's confirmed for me is what he died of because of the detailed post mortem evidence which was further analysed by Professor Stanton Hicks and further investigated and analysed in the Phillips review in 2004.
Somewhere in the NAA folder you'll find some notes from John Ruffles, he describes the meeting between Harry Gold and an unlnown Russian man at the Earle Theatre in the Bronx. JR immediately thought that the man matched SMs description and said so. The man later turned out to be Pavel Fedosimov. Funny old world
https://spartacus-educational.com/Harry_Dexter_White.htm there's a lot of names to look up in here, so I'll park it until i get to the end the other rabbit burrow, Then I'll come back and look at all these names and find out where they all were in 1948
Johnston resigned from the CPA before taking up the role of sitting on the bench.
Apparently, I am related to the Gilchrists through my wife's lineage so I was able to do some genealogy research and it looks unlikely that James Montgomery Gilchrist jnr could be a swapped identity as he had live relatives who would've recognized an imposter.
Can't open your attachment but I'm aware that Elliot Johnston didn't resign from the Communist Party (CP) until 1983, when 65 years old, because he had to resign to accept the role of Judge in SA Supreme Court.
1983 is the year quoted in the attachment also.
I've read all of the 66 available from 300 pages and noted before he was under surveillance and almost prosecuted for avoiding war service, but there are two years of notes from just before SM death that are permanently closed that could be very important in this case.
My Grandfather's cousin was in New Guineas at that time as a war correspondent . He covered some court marshalls for the Argus and such. Google up Cyril Burley in NAA and see if Johnston gets a mention. Anything that was newsworthy may be in Cryril's record. I haven't found anything yet about Johnston's repatriation specifically, other than there were a lot of diggers impatient about returning home.
trove.nla.gov.au
Riddle me this.Passport photo of Charles Mikkelsen
Charles genealogy
source https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=31709342source https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scr...=31817302&Module=SearchNRetrieve&Location=SNR
First mention of the name Charles Mikkelsen being nominated as Somerton Man.
Police clue on beach death - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954) - 23 Apr 1953
Adelaide: Detectives have a new clue to the Somerton Beach body riddle. ...
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