Search for missing medals focuses on Doncaster

Proud Lisa Smith has appealed for help in Doncaster as she tries to track down her grandad’s war medals.

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00:00My great-uncles were Frank Canes and Albert Canes and they both served in the First World War.

00:10Frank Canes went into the war in the November and he actually got killed in the March of 1915

00:21and Albert Canes entered the war a bit earlier but he actually got injured before the Christmas

00:29of 1914 and was invalidated out of service then and never went back to fighting the war.

00:38I've done quite a bit of research on both of them through Ancestry and just researching the

00:43family history and I've always wondered where the medals had gone and put it out there that

00:50I was looking for the medals and then amazing surprise then to have Gordon contact me and

00:57say that he had the medals so yeah great. Quite emotional to have them back and to think that

01:03I've got the medals that they had over 100 years ago yeah fantastic. I bought them off a chap,

01:11they come with another group of medals which belonged to his family who went to a friend of

01:16mine and those were Frank's and Albert's medals were put aside and sat aside for three years

01:28and recently I thought I'd do a further research to see if we could find any of the living

01:34relatives and lo and behold Lisa had done some real great research and for some reason Google

01:43went straight to the top of the page and found a Facebook page and went on Facebook page and

01:49sort of left a message and here we are the medals have gone back to where they should.