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15 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 NEWS Great minds: the scientist and medical doctor Themistocle Zammit, of Sliema (left) travels to England in 1915 - the start of the passport photograph. Below, polymath and chess champion Erin Serracino Inglott and his wife get ready for their Italian honeymoon: the passport specifically notes that the couple will be married on the 28 September, 1933. Their passport is marked valid for "all Europe and to French and Italian provinces" The business magnate Joseph Gasan is 37 in 1928 and is getting ready for a grand tour of possibly any country - his passport is valid for Italy, France, but also Tunis and Turkey. His reason for travel is "business", he is as yet unmarried, describes himself as a steamship owner and merchant, and declares having a birthmark near his left eye The young marquis John Scicluna is only 23 years but then already a banker, indeed one of the owners of the Sciclunas Bank. His moniker 'ic-Cisk', a corruption of the word 'cheque' which his bank introduced, would become the name of Malta's favourite beer - it would be two years after this holiday with wife Violette (which appears to include Tripoli, Africa, as well as Italy, Switzerland, France and England) that Scicluna would acquire the brewery that would become Simonds Farsons Cisk. He lists his place of domicile as 'Naxaro' Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, nicknamed 'il- Gross', is just 22 years in this photo for a passport for travel to North America. He lists his occupation as 'university student', declares a 'mole on the nose' as special peculiarity. It appears his departure was for 6 May 1919, just a month before the Sette Giugno riots Right: Mabel Strickland, at 36, travels to various countries in 1935