Ruskie (and Billyblue)
Yes a google hit while chasing something completely different. Stopped me in my tracks I can tell you.
My grandfather was a bit of a "volatile" character. Not surprising I s'pose - the depression, kokoda etc etc. Anyway, he cut his ties with the family in the late 60s early 70s.
I resume he took his medals with him when he left.
I think Annie (my grandmother) reconciled with him shortly before his death, but he was in a nursing home by then and I guess the medals (like almost everything else in his life) had already fallen by the wayside.....
John
