Please help reunite war medals with RAF man
I HAVE come across some lost property recently that I would like to see returned to the owner or to his family.
The property is very probably of sentimental value to them, being medals awarded for service in our RAF during World War Two.
For whatever unknown reason, they were discovered among my late father-in-law’s medals recently.
However, when I try to find out anything concerning this gentleman, I am being continually baulked by The Data Protection Act.
This has been cited by numerous agencies who will not even tell me if they have any records, let alone the content of any record. All of which leaves me somewhat floundering in my attempts to find somebody who knows something about this mysterious gentleman.
I do know that the gentleman was a member of the RAF at the time. Internet searches have identified organisations that may know or know of him. Yet every time I enquire, I am told that any information that they may have cannot be passed on because of The Data Protection Act.
This has even extended to The Royal Air Force Association (RAFA).
Their only suggestion was that we could hand them back to the RAF or donate them to a museum. These medals deserve a better destination than that.
If Mr J C Nicholls (Jack), RAF/ex RAF, probably with service in India during World War Two, with an address in Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester, during the 1940s or any member of his family want their medals returned in their original boxes, they now know who has them. K R Hill, Oldham