04 February 2023

John Sadler

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Bear with me while I explain the connections here.  My mate Gavin sent me an email recently connecting me with his brother David who had a s...

WWII group of four - helping the Victorian Police find the family

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Yesterday I received a message from a Sergeant in the Victorian Police. The officer also happens to be RSL sub-branch president. Through his...
06 November 2022

Charles Matthews - WWI and WW2 service

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Some searches reveal an extraordinary amount of historical information that, is completely useless when it comes to tracking down a living r...
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25 September 2022

Female Relative Badge

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In the past I've mentioned how hard it is to research Returned From Active Service or Female Relative Badges. Each badge has a number o...
28 August 2022

James Alfred Hansell

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This search was one which ended up coming full circle, not how I expected but the connection was three residents in one street. I was first ...
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20 August 2022

Helping the Victoria Police

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I have several searches going on at the moment that are waiting for responses via Ancestry and other message systems. Sometimes theses take ...
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16 July 2022

Arthur Dwyer - WWI BWM

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This return was rather straight forward from my perspective. however, the result is that much more exciting. I recently received a message f...
26 June 2022

Assistance to the Victorian Police

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This search started after I received an email from Detective Senior Constable B Gibson of the Victorian Police. The email described how the ...

Alfred McKay

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The background of how this research commenced is explained in this story: Lost Medals Australia: KIA at Gallipoli   Another medal Pam and Gr...
02 June 2022

Almost a WWI trio

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This search started with an email from Donna from the Directorate of Honours and Awards. Recently, the 1914-15 Star and British War Medal aw...
01 June 2022

Australian Service Medal

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It isn’t to often I receive contemporary medals. This Australian Service Medal with clasp Kuwait arrived in mail yesterday. It was sent to m...
31 May 2022

WW2 Coldstream Guards medals

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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 awar...
30 May 2022

FTG Ford

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There is not a lot to this story due to the limited amount of public records available from South Australia. I do know that SX40000 Frederic...
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Assistance to the SA Police

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This is a week for helping out a couple for state police forces. This time the SA Police.  There really isn't lot to tell about this ret...

Assistance to the WA Police

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This search started with a message from my research friend Sandra. The WA Police had posted a request to find the family of 3264 Arthur Vivi...
11 May 2022

Medal returned live on radio

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Not long after Anzac Day I received an email from Emelie, a producer for the 2GB Drive show with Jim Wilson. Jim had been contacted by a lis...
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Contemporary medals returned

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This return is quite unusual as I don't see that many contemporary medals that become lost. These medals were found at a charity shop th...
24 April 2022

George Michie - WWI pair

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This return has been several years in the making. Each time I've had a look at this soldier a little bit more information became availab...
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23 April 2022

Harry Wallis

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It is very satisfying to finalise a search just prior to Anzac Day. These WWI medals, awarded to 2258 Harry Edmund Wallis , are more to come...
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09 April 2022

Medals to two generations of the same family

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These are three more medal that came to me from RSL Care SA. I was a little bit confused at the start of this research, despite the surname ...