Meadow Springs resident pleads for irreplaceable war medals back

Only two weeks before Anzac Day she came back home to find that ten of her original WWI, WWII and Korean war medals were missing from her bag.

Ms Wood had taken the precious medals to her job in South Halls Head Primary School to tell the Anzac legend to her Year 1 and Year 2 students ahead of a special service before the school holidays.

But after leaving the school and getting home she opened her bag to find that the red sandwich container holding the medals was missing.

She contacted the school, the cleaning company and local police but no one could provide any information on the whereabouts of the medals.

“I’m just devastated,” Ms Wood said with teary eyes.

“I’m the family Anzac Day pusher and a committed Anzac Day person.”

Ms Wood said she spent Anzac Day hoping the medals would turn up, but the 100-year-old medals are yet to be found.

In her family, the military runs in the blood with three generations having already served in the front.

Some of the medals belonged to Ms Wood’s great-great-grandfather, digger William J Cahil, and to her great-uncle Jack Cahil.

Some of the other irreplaceable medals belonged to the family of her husband, who is also a serviceman himself.

Ms Wood is offering a reward to whoever brings the medals forward or hands them to the local police station, no questions asked, in a bid to get her precious family legacy back.

“I just want them back,” she said.

The old-looking medals are both silver and gold and in different shapes. 

They were inside a red sandwich container with a sticker of McDonald’s hamburglar and the word Tristan written on it.

The box also contained a small picture of her husband’s grandfather during his time in service and a heart lock that belonged to her mother-in-law. 

Ms Wood can be contacted on 0408 820 979.