Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Llanwarne seeking to reunite lost war medals with veterans and their families

QUEENSLANDER Richard Taylor served in World War I and was awarded a British war medal. Can you help reunite his family with his long-lost medal?

THEY are the lost war medals and one man is determined to send them home.

Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Llanwarne, who has dedicated himself to returning medals to their rightful owners, said: “Every medal has a story, each individually named to the soldiers, so it’s a continual motivation to find the veterans and their families.”

News_Image_File: The medal belonging to Queenslander Private Richard Taylor. Picture: Gary RamageLt-Col Llanwarne serves with the army and has two medals of his own after serving overseas, including a tour in Timor and Iraq.

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He began by finding medals in second-hand stores but his blog and website Lost Medals Australia has now attracted so much attention he is now sent several medals a week - and currently has an astounding ‘returned medal tally’ of 1438.

Lt-Col Llanwarne is now looking for the family of Private Richard Taylor, a Ipswich boy who served in World War I and was awarded a British war medal.

Taylor served in 25th Battalion AIF, marrying Lillian Smith in 1928.

Throughout the ‘30s and ‘40s the couple lived at 10 Newton St, Ipswich, moving to 187 Brisbane St, Bulimba, in the 1950s.

Lt-Col Llanwarne said he has not been able to find any record of them having children but in 1917 his next of kin was listed as his mother Margaret Taylor (nee Park) of East St, Ipswich.

To read more go to http://lostmedalsaustralia.blogspot.com.au/

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