John Clarence Matthews

On rare occasions the service record of a WWI soldier provides a direct link to the research I do to return a medal. 

In this case,  the service record of 3607 Private John Clarence Matthews, provides documentary evidence he lost his British War Medal and Victory Medal in the 1930s then in 1955 applied for and received replacements. This Victory Medal is the original as there is no (R) for replacement or (D) for duplicate.

The medal was sent to me as part of the RSL Care SA collection I received in February 2022.

Thanks to the assistance of Bronwyn B, I've been put in contact with John's granddaughter. I'll be sending the medal back to the family in the near future.

The returned medal tally is now 2812.