Joan Patten hopes her story inspires others to keep searching for missing family medals.
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Joan Patten holds a picture of her uncle Leonard Clarence Shepherd and his war medals she found after a near 20-year search. Photo / Jack Riddell
A Napier woman thought she’d never see her uncle’s war medals again.
Nearly 20 years later, a museum tip led her to a British auction house, and sure enough, she’d found the trail that would lead her to them.
Joan Patten grew up with her uncle’s war medals on her
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