After the recent story about helping out the WA Police, I received a message from another staff member, Ed, who had a set of WW2 medals awarded to a solider from the Coldstream Guards.
The soldier was Harry Harold Ealden. After service in WW2, Harry emigrated to Australia and died in 1990. The medals were left with Ed’s father who was President of the WA Guards Association. Ed’s father was a former Irish Guardsman.
Usually, WW2 medals awarded to British soldiers are difficult to research as they were issued unnamed. However, in this case the medals had Harry’s details on them.
I found Harry’s great niece, Kate, via Ancestry and she has now been connected with Ed.
Thanks Kate for the picture of Harry and thanks Ed for the research challenge.
The returned medal tally is now 2756.
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