This search commenced with an email from Victorian Police Sergeant S Cook. His station was in possession of four WWII medals and returned from active service badge awarded to VX142364 Geoffrey Griffin.
It took a bit of time to work out who Geoffrey was until I worked out his middle name was John. This small piece of additional information opened up the full story. Geoffrey died in 1987 and I could find no evidence he married. He died in 1987. His NOK during WWII was his sister Ruby.
Ruby married Leslie Albert Blair and had two sons. One son died in 2009 and the other in 2017. I did manage to find the children of one son and provided all this information to Sergeant Cook. As it turns out, one of Geoffrey's relatives through this family line is a detective in the Victorian Police.
The returned medal tally is now 2849.
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