The TWO Charlie Webbs.
Charles Carl Webb – Abbott and Fitzpatrick’s pick
Charles Richard Webb – or is this the man?
Same colour hair. Same tufted hair above the ears. Same curly hair. Same parting on the left side. Same bulbous forehead. Same left ear prominent. Same right ear not so. Same height as Roy. Same surname as Webb. Same family. Both named Charles. SAME DNA. Official. No Derek Abbott involvement. Enough said.
”So which of these two Charlies is in the family photo? Personally I think it’s Charles Richard Webb .. “ Nick Pelling, 3 Dec. 2022.
Roy was known to be 5’8” – The Somerton Man 5’11 .. Charlie here doesn’t look to be 3” taller than Roy and we’re supposed to believe he’s the Somerton Man.
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The Somerton Man .. 
For what it is worth, on the NAA website there is a Charles Aubone Webb. DOB: 19/05/04 Height: 5′ 11.5″ Born in Brazil, dark complexion, vaccination mark(s) on Left arm. Stomach problems, varicose veins in legs.(horse riding)?
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Clive : yep that Charles be old ground indeed. He was cited on day one or near from memory, a farmer down Dromana way who died late Dec. ’67
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Does this mean the code is a Portuguese acrostic?
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CAW was a farma from Dromana came out as a lad early 20s so not likely to be a cunning el hombre lingua Portuguesa acrostico codigo.
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The code is in English. It was cracked a while back.
It’s quite simple
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Right, so what does it say?
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we’re looking the wrong way!
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We’ve covered it.
Get the Overland train and go see Jess at Moseley St Glenelg.
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I must have missed that .. care to run through it again.
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no one, I don’t think the codes been cracked lol, it could just as easily read:
Might Really Go Over Adelaide, Been A Bad Day With The Bloody Impossible Melbourne Parking And Not Enough Trains, Plenty Melbourne Ladies In Adelaide, Besides Over Adelaide I’m A Queer Catch. I’ll Train Tomorrow Morning , The Station At Melbourne Smells Too Good At Breakfast Time.
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Outbloodystanding shabs. Give yourself a pat on the back, help yourself to some petty cash and take the rest of the day off.
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Can’t even be sure the Overlander was running on the Monday due to coal strikes in Vic. Just checked with Trove re arrival time in Adelaide and they wanted to sell me an electric train set.
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What a shrewd little spy
He escaped the fare rise on 1 December 1948
Melbourne to Adelaide £2/15/6 up from £2/10/0
(no rise for first class though)
The Argus Melbourne 1 December 1948 page 6
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Draw an imaginary railroad on top of the ears from one side to another and do the same through the eyes. Then look for pitchblack bushy eyebrows and compare.
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Dint the Transcontinental run through to Mosley st that day?
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Nup
There’s been no train to Glenelg for 100 years
There’s plenty of remnants though. The old platform at Plympton on Marion Rd opposite Mooringe Ave is still there and a lot of the land which was the rail corridor from the city is still there through the suburbs (see on Google Earth)
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Dud knows F. Hall
Not only no train to Glenelg in the day but no Mosley St. either. There’s one in Hilbert W.A., another in Wichita KS with rail links to Transcontinental Nebraska NE, and one in Jo’s Manchester. Seems that a Henry Moseley opened his Pier Hotel at 2 Jetty Rd. Glenelg in 1856.
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Be nice mate, Dude goes way back .. further than you. Plus I’ve got a problem with your IP address keeps changing ..
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Does anyone know who flagged that image from the family picnic as Carl?
its not exactly consistent with the other rare images of our C Webb
Ps the “Transcontinental” question was actually a private joke but I over estimated the Colonels ability to fathom that. Sorry Colonel.
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GC has made the same bogus claim. You got any proof of that go ahead and prove it smart alec, and don’t say San Francisco, it don’t wash!
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I wonder how many Charlie Webbs they are in their family? There’s Charlie Russel, Carl Charlie, Charlie Junior, well y’all get my point! We need get ahold of more family members to sort this thing out!
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I don’t think Stuart Webb is going to oblige anytime soon, possibly too much at stake?
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You want to know what inveigles me? (1) Was that photo of Roy, ‘Charlie’ and the oldsters the only one tagged? And (2) howcome it was the only page in the album stuck with the page in front?
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With all the coincidences in the SM case, you could mark up the photo page ‘stuck in the album with another page’ as just another one. But, it just seems a bit too much of a coincidence, that out of all the album pages, just this particular page happened to be the one stuck to another page. A hidden message perhaps?
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Clive #
Glad that you’ve finally come on board but not yet convinced about the boss.
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