Mission to reunite WW2 medals with relatives

Northumbria Police and the North East Police History Society are trying to trace relatives of the owners of 50 World War II Special Constable long service medals.

They are thought to belong to First World War veterans who served as Special Constable in the Second World War.

They were passed on to the history society by Northumbria Police after staff found them in storage.

Mick Stothard is helps run the history society. He has already found homes for two of the medals, reuniting them with two daughters of the WWII Special Constables, aged 92 and 82.

Mick said: "Many of these men, if not all of them probably served with the North East and Border regiments in the First World War and were Special Constables in the Second World War."

Mick's grandfather had seven medals, the last being the Special Constable long service medal.

He says he would love to return the newly found medals "to the proud families."

The history society have polished up the and attached them to a ribbon and pin.

They are all engraved and in their original boxes.