WWI medal lost on a Melbourne beach in 1925 returned to soldierâs family
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A war medal lost by a soldier at a beach in Melbourneâs south-east in 1925 has been returned to the manâs descendants almost a century later in the lead-up to Anzac Day.
The British Victory medal was owned by Private Robert Stanley Gordon Smith, who served in France during the First World War, and was lost on Chelsea beach in 1925.
In 1980, this WW1 British Victory medal was located at Beaumaris beach.
Victorian police officer reunites family with WWI medal lost almost 100 years ago
A Victorian police officer has returned a WWI medal, thought to have been lost in 1925, to the soldier s family.
The woman who located the medal, a member of the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch, met Sergeant Vaughan Atherton from Lilydale Police, in outer Melbourne.
Mr Atherton was also a member of the branch after serving as an army reservist for nine years.
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A Victoria Police officer has returned a WW1 medal, thought to have been lost in 1925, to the soldier s family.(Victoria Police)
Mr Atherton found the rightful owner of the medal, a Private Robert Stanley Gordon Smith of the 5th Battalion Australian Imperial Force (AIF).