Goodness me! Thank you for all of this - I'll have to print it off so I can 'take it all in' so to speak.
The following is the only information I have concerning James Carter, so I hope that perhaps something here may 'ring a bell or two' with your brother or sister - indeed any additional information would be a giant leap forward ... Thank you (in advance), for taking the time to read all of this.
Name: James Carter
Born: c. 1916
Nationality: American ... (although it is said that he didn't have an American accent!!!) He came across as someone who was English 'public school' educated'
Residence: Philadelphia, PA.
Occupation: Restaurant proprietor. He claimed his parents owned a restaurant in Philadelphia.
Described as being: 6ft tall; dark hair; brown eyes, slim (said to look a bit like James Mason!)
He could speak Greek.
He had his sister travelling with him at the time - they were both 'good looking', both musical - his
sister sang and Jimmy played the piano. Both were said to be 'well educated'
Jimmy said he was 'associated' with the hotel and seemed to adopt a 'Master of Ceremonies' role.
Jimmy was friends with the lawyer Andrea Hadrianou, and he was also a friend to John Christophides, (at the time financial secretary to Archbishop Makarios (bishop of Kition in 1948 and Archbishop of Cyprus in 1950).
Jimmy seems to have completely disappeared off the radar in late 1949.
I'm afraid that to date, this is all the information I have concerning James Carter ... not much, I know, so any light, (at all), any crumb of new information that could be found would be so very welcome!!!!
Yours most sincerely,
Season's Greetings,
LAS1015 (aka Lesley)