Found in 1949, this WWI medal is now in the right hands by Marjorie Fuhrer, Drayton Valley, Alta.
The Star was a campaign medal awarded to all soldiers who served with or alongside British forces in the First World War. There were more than two million such medals distributed to those who served and their families, but this is a story of one medal in particular.
In 1949, when my husband Albert was a youngster, he found a Star medal, its ribbon still attached, together with a battered brigade cap, in his hometown of Gadsby, Alta. As children will do, the hat and ribbon were played with and consequently were lost overtime. But Albert kept the medal. He always hoped to one day find the person the medal had been awarded to—James Spiden, according to the inscription.
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