Potential leads in effort to reunite family with medals of WWI soldier

Potential leads are being examined in the hope they will see two medals being returned to the relatives of a soldier who won them in World War One.

Potential leads are being examined in the hope they'll see two medals being returned to the relatives of a soldier who won them in World War One.

News of the discovery of the medals, found in an old jacket handed into a West Cork charity shop, have sparked major interest among amateur sleuths and serious military historians who are trawling through records hoping to identify leads to the family of Private Patrick Ryan.