Watch: Amateur historians in battle to reunite family with Private Ryan medals found in charity shop

Amateur historians are sleuthing away in an effort to reunite relatives of a World War One soldier with two medals he won during that conflict.

Watch: Amateur historians in battle to reunite family with Private Ryan medals found in charity shop

Amateur historians are sleuthing away in an effort to reunite relatives of a World War One soldier with two medals he won during that conflict.

Media and military history buffs from all over the country have homed in on the story after the two medals were found in a jacket which was among a bundle of old clothes donated to a charity shop in West Cork.

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