What the Boxall Rubaiyat wasn’t, and isn’t..
It wasn’t a training manual.
It wasn’t an Allied Intelligence creation.
It wasn’t a foreign intelligence creation.
It wasn’t an example of hiding messages using micro-codes.
It wasn’t an example of hiding messages using the Morbit Cipher.
It isn’t an example of hiding messages using SOE’s InkH Technique. That’s Special Operations Technique.
It wasn’t an example of hiding messages using Amanorphic Cryptography.
It wasn’t an example of hiding messages using the Hills Cipher.
It wasn’t the means of transferring secret information between Boxall and the nurse.
It wasn’t the means of transferring secret information between the nurse and Boxall.
It wasn’t anything that interested any Intelligence Agency.
It wasn’t, and isn’t a historical object, present company excluded.
It wasn’t, and isn’t a valuable war relic, present company excluded.
It wasn’t kept hidden by Boxall.
It wasn’t kept hidden from the media.
It wasn’t evidence that Boxall was trained in secret coding procedures.
It wasn’t evidence that the nurse was trained in secret coding procedures.
It wasn’t evidence that the nurse was employed by Allied Intelligence.
It wasn’t evidence that Boxall was employed by Allied Intelligence.
It wasn’t evidence that the nurse was employed by foreign intelligence.
It wasn’t evidence that Boxall was employed by foreign intelligence.
GC didn’t appreciate this post either ..
The Somerton Man .. 
The Boxall Rubaiyat may not have been anything
But the Somerton man Rubaiyat was a recognition signal
and the Tamam Shud slip was torn from it to retain that
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And GC thinks everything is hidden in his fanciful microcode
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Nobody could be so gullible. In reality GC thinks nothing of the sort and never has. He only wants us to be duped into believing that everything be secreted in his fanciful microcode.
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Us being not me, although he had me once.
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Strange that nobody else has stood up and shouted from the rooftops: “Everything about the micro writing involving the SM is true”.
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Same deal with GC’s first missus Isobella who had the good sense to give him the old heave ho, after twenty plus rough years of being lied to and shat on. In the end she found a truly decent man in Col Wallis who cared for her during a long illness so her last years, although painful, were worth with those she loved; that’s according to Lorraine & Nick who miss her deeply.
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A little while ago I posted a comment on GC’s site headed ‘Fabulous look Gordon,’ which he duly posted .. a day or so later, under the same anonymous guise I asked him if he’d ever received confirmation of his many claims of hidden coding in Boxall’s ROK – needless to say this comment didn’t get past his personal filter. I found this surprising as I remember GC saying his website didn’t give the IP address of any his commentators.
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Well Clive, Peteb and Byron came clean eventually though neither shouted it from the roof tops. How’s about you, as a former true blue GC micro shite deceiver, shouting it from the roof tops to let us know how you feel.
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Former police officer and 10 years of delving and GC has nothing to show for it
No closer than when he started
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Like Pete said, “he had me once”, same here, I truly believed GC had revealed a hidden complex of letters, leading to a solution in this case. But, the lack of information on why he was the only one and nobody else could find the same letters etc. Plus, the attitude that nobody should question my methods etc. You get the picture. Lack of explanation, using ‘anonymous’ and the sad thing about all this is that, surely everyone interested in the SM just wants to find the true history of who he was/what happened etc. Nothing more matters.
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Remembering that GC missed the striped trouser testimony by Gordon Strapps, plus the News interview with Const. Moss where he said no matches were found on the body, add to that GC missed the mysterious positioning of the seventh letter A in every line of code that was over seven letters, then he incredibly claimed the fob pocket where the TS was found was a ‘secret pocket’ despite what Feltus wrote in that it was a standard fob pocket found in most men’s’ trousers then and now, all in all a very poor performance by the self-claimed leader in the Somerton Man field.
And there’s more …
The other day I read on his site that he claimed to be the FIRST to mention the height discrepancy between Carl Webb @ 5’8, and SM @ 5’11’ – ?!!?
Then we have his what only can be called aberrant behaviour in the past, not long after I wrote that his micro-coding theory was a self induced fantasy – I was stalking his family, he wrote – I had a gun and I was going after him he wrote. I had a myriad of mental problems he wrote, and I needed urgent medical help. As a matter of fact I recall he made the same claims of mental illness in more than a few of us. He also accused me of being a narcissist, parasitic troll and being such I was deserving of his prayers.
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I’ve just noted a comment by Josh on GC’s site, asking him if he knows the IP addresses of those making comments – GC says no, so I immediately asked him (as an anonymous) why he failed to publish my comment from a few days ago, the one where I respectfully asked him if he had ever received any confirmation of his coding claims.
Let’s see if he has the courage to post this one up.
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I’ve mentioned before, more than once; anyone interested in GC’s own addresses and background eg., police cadet circa. 1964 &c. NAA has 1976/77 Immigration file documents on line for a pittance. Well worth the price to procure information that one Christopher Gordon Cramer Esq. bn. 1947 would rather have kept from eager prying eyes.
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For starters, contrary to GC’s assertion, Arthur W. Hamilton’s SHA’IR OMAR, unlike the Whitcombe and Tombs C&W ROK (not Collins), was no pocket version meant for soldiers in the field; it was all of 20cm in width, ie. excercise book dimentions. Then of course Alfred Boxalls gift book from Jestyn (presumably) wasn’t published until late 1944 so from that we might assume that the first and possibly only SME, Malay six week course of May/June ’44 for Water Transport Small Ships applicant entry, was more likely to have been Hamilton’s 1942 text book, Malay Made Easy. Forgive me if you’ve heard all this before but I thought I’d remind yous all. You too mugger.
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Positively appreciated old veteran ..
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GC the self-proclaimed Somerton man expert
still can’t link him to anything
to find out who he was
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The key to the question on everybody’s list can be found easy courtesy of C. Gordon Cramer Esq. on his new SM blog, under ‘About The Author’. If you don’t have the time to trawl through the immodest self serving accolaids, all bullshit of couse, the name Pavel Fedosimov @ able seaman Webb (SS Golden Phoenix will set you straight on who Somerton Man was.
A gentle reminder that today be Remembrance Day to our fallen past conflicts …. Lest We Forget
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aye to that
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Couple of points in need of clarification re GC’s new blog under a sub-heading ‘Key Players & Connections’. Was anyone aware that Jessica Thomson was the nurse’s real name then only later did she become Jessica Harkness? Well that’s what it says in the speil, seems to be cart before the horse. Lieutenant Boxall was known to have an Intelligence background says GC. Funny I assumed he was an NRMA road serviceman before becoming an NT Nackeroo, then later in the war a Small Ships engineering officer. Then there’s the author’s claim that he had the privilage of spending many hours talking with a taxidermist named a Mr. Lawsn [sic]. Name ring any bells with you Mr. Walker/Turner?
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I’m sure that GC did spend “many hours” with Mr Lawson, albeit from a distance i.e. telephone. My understanding is that GC had determined that, any future conversations with Lawson were to be recorded, regardless who spoke to him.
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My understanding from a conversation with a carer on his 100 birthday, be that Paul was not able to come to the phone due to hard of hearing; so I take it GC must have made contacts early on in the piece or else in person…As for the Alf Boxall pocket Malay ROK, suggest you check with him showing it to Littlemore on SM Inside Story Utube 1978. Not a big book yet can’t Imagine SM shoving it into his striped Stamina trouser pocket; bit of a tight squeeze I’d say.
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Not SM, he had the W & T ROK of course? I meant Alf Boxall for the much larger dual language edition.
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So I take it that Clive Turner’s own ‘one on one’ interviews with ‘Henry’ Lawson were secretly recorded and then passed on to Gordon for his expert determination as to distribution potential. Naturely expenses for services rendered would have been in order and information gleaned from said informant subject to strictest non disclosure provisions. Guess we might assume that all related original recordings are in the recipient’s care and full control. A job well done Clive.
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Had few chats with the old boy myself, lovely man, trouble was I got his phone number from Clive and when GC found out about it he developed a severe case of the tomtits.
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Yes, I remember that event. GC told me I had ‘betrayed’ him. Silly me, I didn’t realize that passing a telephone number to another person was tantamount to treason.
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I talked to Paul Lawson face to face, about half a dozen times, at his home. Nothing was recorded, only my notes I jotted down at the time. If by ‘recorded’ you mean by a machine, neither Paul or myself ever broached the subject that his conversations with me should be recorded, on a machine. He was quite happy for me to note his replies to my questions. Whatever information I passed on to GC, about Paul’s knowledge of the SM, was given to GC for him to do as he wished with it.
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Not so relevant to the case in question but; got me to thinking whether SM’s feather stitched jacket had pockets sewn into the jacket lining (GC), which would indicate American origin, or were they of linen material tacked on with good Irish Barbour thread as might suggest manufacture elswhere Just a thought!
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Clive. In your conversations with Paul Lawson on behalf of BS/TS under strict rules of engagement, did you at any time doubt informant’s veracity? Case in question, comes to mind being a later detailed claim that Alf Boxall &, then nurse Jestyn had clandstine meetings in the garden (there was none) of the RNSH nurses home to discuss ship movements in and out of Sydney Harbour during WW2. Did you think to ask Paul whence such information derived? Thanks JS
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JS: I asked Paul Lawson how did Alf Boxall pass information onto Jessie? He replied she met him in “a garden near the hospital”; I presumed he meant the RNSH garden. No, I must admit I didn’t question PL as to where he obtained this information from.
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Clive: Thanks for your confirmation of the Lawson claim which GC later reported on verbatum, more or less; never once have I doubted your own good faith in the matter. From memory Paul served most of the war years with a rehab convalescant unit in NT and would not have been privy to clandrstine activities in far off Sydney, hence his presumed lack of first hand knowledge of the nurse’s alleged covert dealings with an army Lieutenant named Alf Boxall. Any idea where he might have obtained such info.? js
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I wonder if Paul had a copy of Gerry Feltus’s book in his house, and he never told me? I think he would have done, if I had asked him. He did tell me that DA had visited him and DA had laid down on his carpet. He was, apparently, trying to find out from Paul if he looked about the same length, as the SM had on the slab.
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Why would DA lie down on a carpet in order to estimate SM’s height on the slab. If he had thought ahead and knew a thing or two, he would have asked Paul to take his place. Afterall y’man was known to be about 5′ 11″, same as his deceased sitter all those years ago.
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Yeah, seemed a bit bizarre considering that Paul had poor eyesight and his legs were weak. Of course, the carpet could have been quite comfortable to lay on!
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