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Originally Posted by Tesco Rambler
This really makes me both perplexed and rather angry. You get these people who frequent the various antiques programmes and have a pile of medals of their grandfather or other member of the family and seemingly their only interest in the medals is a monetary sale vale. Often you see them later on the programme auctioning the medals for relatively paltry sums. What can you do with £200 or £500 these days. These medals especially of the Great War are surely worth handing down in the family, a wonderful and heroic memento of one's ancestor. Or is it a sad sign of the times when families are fractured and we all stand as isolated individuals, rootless and at the mercy of a more organised and solid community.
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I sent all my fathers medals to the Fusileers museum in Bury, Walter did the honour's at least they'll be looked after and respected