An Ipswich man has helped returned more than 100 pieces of World War One memorabilia to their relatives.
Adam Simpson-York started reuniting relatives with medals and memorabilia almost two years ago.
Since then, The Medals Going Home initiative has bought medals, photos, binoculars, sports trophies and even a clothes brush, and tracked down the relative of the original owner to give it back to them.
Mr Simpson-York researches the memorabilia, and uses an ancestry website to link them back, then contacts the family and lets them know it is for sale.
He said: "It all started during Christmas 2020 out of boredom.
"I wanted to find something that would keep me occupied so I just bought a random medal off of eBay and then tried to research it on an ancestry and then go back to the family and I found it really easy, so I bought another one."
Mr Simpson-York has said the hardest part, is tracing it back to living relatives.
He said: "Another thing that is tough is once you find someone, and message them on Facebook or Instagram, they can think you're a scammer."
The father of two has started telling people that there is an item which belonged to a relative rather than buying it straight away, after buying memorabilia that family members did not want.
He said: "I was finding that a lot of the time I was buying stuff, finding a family member and they didn't want it and then I just have hold of this piece that I paid for, and having to resell it."
Mr Simpson-York has set up a fundraiser to help with the cost of medals and to enable him to buy pieces outright so they don't go to others and he can return them to relatives.
His Facebook page 'Medals Going Home' has reached over 4,000 followers, who get to see where lost memorabilia goes too.
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