Community Portsmouth collector reunites family with long-lost war medals By Mark Acheson Contributor Published 21st Jul 2024, 16:16 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Medals won by two brothers in World War 1 have been returned to their family thanks to a Portsmouth collector. Gordon Cross acquired the awards in a batch he bought several years ago. Recently, he decided to try to trace the family of the recipients, Frank and Albert Caines.
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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Notice and Terms of Service apply. Before long he found a Facebook appeal posted by Welsh air hostess Lisa Smith, who was seeking the medals given to her great uncles more than 100 years ago. Gordon Cross looks on as Lisa Smith sees for the first time the medals won by her great uncles Gordon invited her to the World War 1 Remembrance Centre in Portsmouth , where he is a volunteer, to collect the awards she had been seeking for so long.
Lisa, who travelled from her home in Pontypool for the presentation, said: ‘What an amazing surpris.