Medals Going Home with Adam Simpson-York

Medals Going Home with Adam Simpson-York Hi. I'm Adam. I research ww1 medals, photos, named antiques etc and try to trace living relatives.
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Let's play a game of...Where am I? 🤣
11/01/2026

Let's play a game of...

Where am I? 🤣

So we're off to Vienna for a couple of nights.Anyone got any sightseeing tips?
09/01/2026

So we're off to Vienna for a couple of nights.

Anyone got any sightseeing tips?

05/01/2026

Taking a moment in the snow at Smellys bench

Maybe it's time to have another look at these Peaty family photos...
05/01/2026

Maybe it's time to have another look at these Peaty family photos...

How about this one? This trunk really needed some TLC but is now a beautiful coffee table
04/01/2026

How about this one?

This trunk really needed some TLC but is now a beautiful coffee table

EACH at Frinton-on-Sea. Do you think it's a good read? Would love to learn more about researching DNA!
04/01/2026

EACH at Frinton-on-Sea. Do you think it's a good read?
Would love to learn more about researching DNA!

What medal did Grandpa Potts wear in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? One of my favourite films!"And the big brown bear came lol...
02/01/2026

What medal did Grandpa Potts wear in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? One of my favourite films!

"And the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain"

Happy New Year everyone!What do you wish for in 2026?
01/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone!

What do you wish for in 2026?

MEDALS GOING HOME made for an incredible Christmas day present for the Kindred family all the way in Australia!Frederick...
31/12/2025

MEDALS GOING HOME made for an incredible Christmas day present for the Kindred family all the way in Australia!

Frederick Albert Kindred was born on March 24th 1889 in Brighton, Sussex. His father, Henry, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 41. We find.the family in 1891 living at 14 Bread Street. Frederick's father is a tailor and his mother a tailoress. His father died just 5 years later and in 1901 we find Frederick living with his sister and his widowed mother Elizabeth but now they are in London on Stanhope Street in St Pancreas. Sadly his mother then died in 1909 and he goes to love with his sister who is now married on Holloway Road. Frederick is aged 22 and is working as a printers clerk.

He married Lily Gertrude Thomas on September 19th 1912 at Upper Holloway Baptist Church which certainly doesn't look how I expected a church to look! At the time he was working as a commercial clerk. They had three children during their marriage.

Frederick served during WW1 with the Border Regiment and the Army Pay Corps. His surviving pension record gives a next of kind address of his wife as 5 Stafford Road in Preston. It also tells us that he spent 74 days in hospital with PUO - Pyrexia of Unknown Origin.

After the war Frederick worked as a bookkeeper for the civil service and he was still living in Preston with his wife and 3 children on the 1921 census. It then looks like the family moved to Australia and spent most of the next 30 years there.

Frederick died on August 12th 1949 in Surrey at the age of 60.

His medal is now back with his grandson in Australia who gave it to his father as a Christmas present.

"Hi Adam, thank you so very much for making it possible for us to reunite my dad with his grandfather's WW1 medal. It made for the best surprise Christmas present the Kindred family could ever have hoped for"

I just keep finding stamps 🤣Here's other 20 first class stamps. Anyone want these for £20? Drop me a message 👍
30/12/2025

I just keep finding stamps 🤣

Here's other 20 first class stamps.

Anyone want these for £20? Drop me a message 👍

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