Another medal group back to family!

**LarsA** · 15-10-2018, 19:39

During my medal collecting, and with the ascent of Internet and different Forums like this, it has been my pleasure to see 8-10 medals or groups back to the family. Hopefully there will be more.

This week it was a group (as the majority of them has been), to a soldier in the RWF.

This man landed at Suvla 8/8/1915 with the 1/6th, survived the war and came back to Rushden where the batallion had been billeted to marry his sweetheart he had met then.

To replace the group I recently aquired a MM and trio to the 1/6th. He earned the MM at Gaza, which was reported in the Rushden papers - as I found out when the nephew I sent the group to emailed me a link with a photo of Bernard Kelly, MM, without knowing this was the soldier whose medal replaced his uncles in my collection.

Serendipity!

ATB,

Lars

**ap1** · 15-10-2018, 20:23

A fantastic gesture Lars once again! I have an ex RWF mucker who can testify to the work you do.

Best

Al

**jones20** · 16-10-2018, 09:51

Well done Lars but just a quick question having supplied the medals back to the nephew how do you feel if he just sells them on again the reason I ask is because I work in the local regimental museum where I live we had a dad come in the other week with his dads medal which was a really good collection and he intended to leave them to his own son the first thing his son said were how much are they worth which set the alarm bells ringing and he brought them into us and donated them to the museum and are now on display to everyone

**LarsA** · 16-10-2018, 12:53

The concern shown in all cases I have let go back to family clearly shows a great interest in family history, so I don’t see a resale as an alternative in the foreseeable future.

And should it happen, it it just one more medal group that comes on the Market. As long as there are collectors, the medsls don’t get melted down or thrown away hopefully.

Museums could be an alternative, but nowaday with budgets and politics how many museums will vanish or relocate without possibility to have medals on display? No easy answers!

Lars