Thanks for your interesting input TTN. I have no knowledge of how/when my friend's father came by the medals and she can't ask him, now. The Sqn Ldr had an AFC and an OBE which are not the medals she has. The Sqn Ldr's mother died in 1940 and her things were not auctioned until 2009 and the medals did not appear in the auction catalogue, I am told. It may well be that they they were disposed of as useless baubles by relatives but I think we should try and reunite them with the family. I have contacted the auctioneers to try and find out who put the estate up for auction.