17 January 2026

Contemporary RAN medals

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There is a bit of a cycle which occurs every so often with the research I do. This round seem to be that the circumstances which saw the med...
11 January 2026

Assistance to New South Wales Police

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The relationships I have with the Australian Federal Police and all the State and Territory police forces have been long standing and contin...
06 January 2026

WWII Pacific Star

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This is the story of the second success I've had after receiving three medals awarded to two different veterans from Lauren D. This Paci...
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WWII RAAF pair

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It is often the case that when I commence some research I have a flurry of activity which includes the veteran's service information and...
27 November 2025

Medals for national service returned

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The most difficult part of this search was working out what the recipient's first initial stood for. Once I had that the search was quit...
16 November 2025

WWII pair - 3 LHR and DAC

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This search started with an email which came completely out of the blue from fellow Army officer, Phil H. Phil's brother in law, Keith, ...
11 September 2025

WWII RAAF medals

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Albert Jasper Carter served in the RAAF during WWII as a guard. Prior to the war Albert was employed by Associated Newspaper Ltd as a publi...
25 August 2025

WWI identify disc

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Over the years I have had a wonderful collaboration with Philippe Clerbout from France. The original connection was through our recently dec...
14 June 2025

WWII POW

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This group of four medals does little to tell the story of NX29241 Staff Sergeant Jack Powell . Even his service record is thin on detail ab...
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13 May 2025

Australian Defence Medal for service in the Vietnam War era

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Quite a bit of mental gymnastics were needed to get to a solution with this search.  This Australian Defence Medal came to me via the wonder...
09 April 2025

International Force East Timor medal

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I'm sure this story will strike a cord with my RAInf friends. Jason Lindgren was a rifleman with  2 RAR  when his battalion deployed to ...
01 April 2025

Early WWII enlistee

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As soon as I saw service number of this solider, it didn't surprise me the reverse of stars in this medal group were un-named. Individua...
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08 February 2025

Jackie Trotter post 2

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Shortly after I posted the story of Jackie Trotter , I received an message from Dan J which read: Hi Glyn, Great story about Trotter. I have...
22 January 2025

Jackie Trotter

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I recently received a message from Neil L a retired Royal Australian Navy veteran who had several medals he was keen to have returned to fam...