Medals Gone Missing, a Moruya not-for-profit service, is busy trying to track down the rightful owners of a group of World War II service medals left at Batemans Bay Post Office in June.
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Medals Gone Missing has determined that the medals, which include the Australian Service Medal, the Pacific Star and the 1939-1945 Medal, belonged to the late Thomas Vincent Dacey, and
volunteers Gary Traynor, from Moruya, and Sandra Smith, of Dubbo, have teamed up with Ancestry.com to track down his relatives.
“It would be all-round awesome if we could find his relatives,” Mr Traynor said.
It has been determined that Mr Dacey was born in Murrumburrah on August 3, 1918, and that he lived in 9 Brock Street, Young, in 1977.
“Dacey is not a particularly common name, and I have left messages with potential relatives in Murrumburrah, Cootamundra and Young,” Mr Traynor said.
A second cousin of Mr Dacey has also been tracked down in Newcastle, but Mr Traynor is hoping to make contact with closer relatives.
The medals, which also include a World War II 60th anniversary medal in a box, along with an RSL badge and a Greyhound Owners and Trainers Association badge, were left on the counter at the post office in early June.
Mr Dacey enlisted at Ardlethan and served with the 4 Docks Operating Company.
He was discharged on January 29, 1946.