My feel good story - helping a medal go home :-)

[Sarndra]

I have just completed a webpage and added it to my site about my feel good story this year thus far and thought i'd share.

Returning a British War medal to a family member along with an honourable discharge certificate, both WW1 of course.

Page here: www.sarndra.com/perreau.html

Enjoy :-)  i certainly did!

Cheers
Sarndra

[Draigcoch]

Very interesting, well done for reuniting the family with these precious momentos, they must be very grateful to you for your caring.

[Sarndra]

Very interesting, well done for reuniting the family with these precious momentos, they must be very grateful to you for your caring.

Thanks :-)  The grandson was extremely moved [going by his emails] and most certainly appreciated it....i only did what i hope anyone else would do for me.  It's sort of payback too... for help i've had in the past when i first started...i remember how excited i was getting an original photo.  Some things we never forget :-)

Sarndra

[dawnyb]

hi sarndra
what a lovely story well done you. you have a very interesting site i've saved it to have a proper look. your photo's are fantastic xx

[Sarndra]

hi sarndra
what a lovely story well done you. you have a very interesting site i've saved it to have a proper look. your photo's are fantastic xx

Aw thanks Dawny :-)  It was very satisfying.  I've now bought a 1937 framed life saving certificate i'm going to try and reunite with a family.

Glad you enjoyed my site :-) It's been a labour of love for a decade...

Sarndra

[judi2632]

Hi Sarndra

Love the story

Wow what a great piece of research work, undertaken with great compassion and selflessness. Congratulations to you.

Kind Regards Judi

[Sarndra]

Hi Sarndra

Love the story

Wow what a great piece of research work, undertaken with great compassion and selflessness. Congratulations to you.

Kind Regards Judi

Well thank you so much Judi!  :-) there are so many of 'us' out there :-) I just hope that my story encourages others to do this sort of thing - the feel good effect lasts for ages! 


Regards
Sarndra

[Sarndra]

Some of you may remember my story about purchasing WW1 NZ soldier Rifleman William PERREAU's British War Medal and discharge certificate and managing to reunite them with his grandson in Australia.

As a postscript, there is now a headstone on his grave thanks to his grandson, however this was the second effort...the first effort saw the headstone erected on the wrong grave in August 2009! Thankfully the postion did not look right to my partner and I where we envisaged it should be and so i queried it on the grandsons behalf.  We managed to resolve the issue [the installer got the wrong cemetery division but what they thought was the right row and plot as the numbers were the same] and it was placed on Williams grave in September.  I took some photos today and have added them to my website for him www.sarndra.com/perreau.html

Cheers
Sarndra
Auckland, NZ

[mare]

  Well done you getting the headstone properly sorted as well ... you deserve a medal  mare