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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). ....

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