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Police in rural England are begging the world for help in identifying a kindly old man who has no idea who he is or where he came from — but seems to sound a bit like a Canadian.

“This is a sad story of a man who has no identity,” said Kieren Bodill, spokesperson for the West Mercia Police, in a statement to the National Post.

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Roger Curry, as he is being called by police, was picked up near the cathedral city of Hereford under unusual circumstances.

On Nov. 7, a man since described as a “Canadian” flagged down a passing ambulance and placed Roger Curry into their care, saying that he had found the elderly man wandering around.

The mysterious Canadian has since vanished, although police are appealing for him to come forward.

To be honest, the reasons for our appeal, is that we don’t know anything about him, and we don’t know if he has taken the name of someone else, or if he is in fact called Roger.

The old man was in excellent condition. He was clean, shaved and wearing clothing from the U.K. retailer F&F. To staff at Hereford Hospital he appeared to say that his name was “Roger Curry.”