The daughter of a British WWI solider has been reunited with her dad's war medals which were being sold on eBay. Adam Simpson-York, 37, looks out for war medals being sold online and then tries tracking down their owners' relatives.
Two weeks ago he found three medals – a Victory Medal, a British War Medal and a 1914-1915 Star –belonging to Sergeant Thomas Ernest Lineker, an imports manager who fought in the Great War. Using the basic details - name and Royal Army Medical Corps information - on the medals, he built a family tree using online resources.
Finally he found the soldier’s granddaughter Daryl Bonas through her children on Facebook. He was astonished to hear Thomas' daughter, Brenda Lineker, 82 was still alive, and living in the same house in East Ham, London, where her father lived.
