War hero’s family get his medal back 35 years after pub boss found it in his garden
A WAR hero’s family got his medal back — after a pub boss tracked them down 35 years after finding it in his garden.
Shaun Timbrell, 51, tucked Frank Skidmore’s World War One honour away in a box in 1986.
After a lockdown clear-out, he decided to track down Private Frank’s relatives with history buff cousin Steph Joynson, 47.
A month later, they traced his great-grandson Matt, 47, and grandson Bill, 79, who knew nothing of Frank’s service.
Shaun posted the Victory Medal off but it is still a mystery how it got in his old garden in Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
Frank, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, lived in Bristol.
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He had 12 kids and died in 1949 aged 72.
Bill said: “I only met my grandad once, three days before he died.
";I was over the moon when Shaun got in touch.”