WWI Medal Found in Collapsing British Shed

The following excerpt is from an article updated August 4, 2014 on the daventryexpress.co.uk website.

Two friends who discovered a First World War medal in an abandoned garden shed in Rugby are hoping to trace relatives of its owner in time to reunite them for the centenary of the war.

Graham Banks and Jennifer Ette discovered the medal in the latter’s derelict garden shed…

Mr Banks said he was helping Miss Ette take down a ramshackle shed in her garden in Rugby, Warwickshire, when they made the amazing discovery.

The 32-year-old barman said: ” She has lived there for four years since she bought the house and has never set foot in the shed. She said she opened the door once when she first bought the house, looked inside, and thought, ‘oh my god, it’s full of spiders’, so shut the door and hasn’t been in it since.

Note that the original article which the above updates is from January 8, 2014.

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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