He was clean, tidy and didn't seem to be sleeping rough.
But when this man walked into a hospital carrying sunglasses, a walking stick and cigarettes no-one was more confused than he was.
That's because not only had he forgotten his own name, he didn't know where he was from or who any of his relatives were.
All he knew was that he woke up on a beach in Deal, Kent - and couldn't remember anything else.
Police trying to find out who he is have so far drawn a blank and in a bid to solve the mystery have now issued this picture of him.
Officers said the man walked into the minor injury unit in Victoria Hospital at Deal last Thursday, suffering head pains and amnesia.
He was later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, but didn't have any obvious injuries.
The man is described as having an English accent and is in his late 50s to early 60s.
He is well-built and was wearing black Wrangler jeans, a white T-shirt and patterned sweatshirt at the time.
He also had a navy blue walker's coat on and was wearing beige walking boots.
Officers don't think he has been reported missing and his details have been circulated to police forces nationwide in an effort to identify him.
A Kent Police spokesman said: 'The man says he doesn't have any memory of himself, his family, home or any other personal details.
'He claims he woke up on the beach at Deal on August 17 and asked for directions to the hospital. However, he doesn't have any obvious injuries.'
The case is bound to draw comparisons to the discovery of another mystery man, dubbed the Piano Man, also in Kent in 2005.
He was found wandering aimlessly near the beach in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, wearing a dripping-wet suit and tie, and all the labels from his clothes had been removed.
Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, where he was first taken, gave him a pen and paper in the hope he would write his name or draw his country's flag.
Instead, he drew highly-detailed pictures of a grand piano, showing not only the keys but the intricate inner workings of the instrument.
When a social worker showed him a piano in the hospital chapel, he played classical music 'beautifully'.
After several months, he claimed his memory had returned and it emerged he was Andreas Grassl from Germany.
In February last year, the identity of a smartly-dressed man found unconscious on Brighton beach in East Sussex was solved when his fiancee stepped forward.
She saw newspaper reports of her fiance's discovery by a passer-by and travelled from her home in London to the coast to identify him.
But when this man walked into a hospital carrying sunglasses, a walking stick and cigarettes no-one was more confused than he was.
That's because not only had he forgotten his own name, he didn't know where he was from or who any of his relatives were.
Do you know this man? Police in Deal are trying to solve the mystery of a man who woke up on a beach claiming to have no memory
Police trying to find out who he is have so far drawn a blank and in a bid to solve the mystery have now issued this picture of him.
Officers said the man walked into the minor injury unit in Victoria Hospital at Deal last Thursday, suffering head pains and amnesia.
He was later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, but didn't have any obvious injuries.
The man is described as having an English accent and is in his late 50s to early 60s.
He is well-built and was wearing black Wrangler jeans, a white T-shirt and patterned sweatshirt at the time.
He also had a navy blue walker's coat on and was wearing beige walking boots.
Officers don't think he has been reported missing and his details have been circulated to police forces nationwide in an effort to identify him.
A Kent Police spokesman said: 'The man says he doesn't have any memory of himself, his family, home or any other personal details.
'He claims he woke up on the beach at Deal on August 17 and asked for directions to the hospital. However, he doesn't have any obvious injuries.'
The case is bound to draw comparisons to the discovery of another mystery man, dubbed the Piano Man, also in Kent in 2005.
He was found wandering aimlessly near the beach in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, wearing a dripping-wet suit and tie, and all the labels from his clothes had been removed.
Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, where he was first taken, gave him a pen and paper in the hope he would write his name or draw his country's flag.
Instead, he drew highly-detailed pictures of a grand piano, showing not only the keys but the intricate inner workings of the instrument.
When a social worker showed him a piano in the hospital chapel, he played classical music 'beautifully'.
After several months, he claimed his memory had returned and it emerged he was Andreas Grassl from Germany.
In February last year, the identity of a smartly-dressed man found unconscious on Brighton beach in East Sussex was solved when his fiancee stepped forward.
She saw newspaper reports of her fiance's discovery by a passer-by and travelled from her home in London to the coast to identify him.
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