Medals of war hero laid forgotten for nearly a century handed to the next generation
An 83-year-old woman who went on a three-month odyssey to find the war grave of her uncle who didn't return to England after the Great War has handed over his medals to her five-year-old grandson.
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Eileen Eykelestam always knew her uncle, Private Frederick Ball, had died towards the end of the conflict but she never knew how or when.
Determined to find out what happened to her relative, Eileen, from Claverley spent three months in 2015 searching for his grave in Europe.
It turned out Frederick had survived for almost four years of combat during one of the most bloody conflicts ever witnessed., only to die in a prisoner of war camp of starvation just four weeks before the end of the Great War.
He had been buried in Cologne, Germany, in a large civil cemetery known locally as Koln Sudfriedhof, designed to commemorate 25 servicemen from the UK who died in Germany and had no known grave.
"My father, Alfred Ball, was born in Bridgnorth High Street and was master baker at Davies Bakery, also in High Street," said Eileen.
