This search started last week with a email from Bill A who told me that four WWII medals awarded to NX102015 Leopold Harivson Face had passed through several sets of hands before ending up with him. The medals were located in South Australia where Leopold, know as Blue, settled after the war. Bill had done some research via Ancestry and worked out the family tree for Blue. As with a lot of information on Ancestry, Bill got to a certain point in time but couldn't quite make the link to the current generation.
Blue did not marry or have children, however, was one of 12 children. Several of his siblings either died young or, like Blue, didn't marry. The best lead I found was one sister who married and settled in Albury, NSW.
This was his sister, Syliva. Sylvia's married name was Martin and one of her daughters was Allayne who died in 2019. This enabled me to find a contemporary death notice for Allayne which provided the names of her husband and children. By using a combination of electoral roll entries, ABN records and the white pages I was able to provide Bill a phone number to contact Allayne's family. Bill will soon arrange for the medals to be returned to another niece of Blue's
The returned medal tally is now 2696.
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