The value of having a photocopy of the first page of your passport proved to be true for a lady military friend of mine. On a Saturday getting off tour bus in Dublin gypsies stole her purse in which she had passport, military ID, plane ticket (she was due to leave London the next day to come back to the States) baggage checks etc etc but she did have a photocopy of

first page of her passport in a separate location on her from the passport. The tour bus driver drove her immediately to the American Embassy and it was amazing what she got done on a Saturday afternoon just before they closed. They gave her an emergency temporary passport and I

think she had numbers on her airline ticket written down separately too

although she had to pay a fine to get ticket reissued. While you don’t

want to lose our passport it you have photo copy of first page of your

passport not all is evidently lost.