New direction in war medals hunt
Shropshire Star readers have given a lead to a man who has been trying to track down the children of a wartime submariner so that he can offer them their late father's war medals.
But their information has taken his hunt in a whole new direction - Cambridgeshire.
Dave Percival, formerly from Shropshire but who now lives in Anglesey, is seeking the children of Tony Lefevre, who was in the Royal Navy during the war and left the service in 1950. Later he worked at GKN Sankey in Hadley and was a well known bandsman locally. Tony died in 1993 and Dave married his widow Decima - known as Delce - in 1995.
With Delce's death, Dave inherited Tony's war medals, and he wants to offer them to Tony's children from his first marriage, who he thinks are his next of kin. Dave never met Tony's first wife or children, but knows of their existence through Delce's family, and thought they might still be living in Telford area.
"A gentleman from Newport has contacted me and has kindly done a family tree. There were two children, who would now be 62 and 63, who were born in Wellington, and both married and went back to Cambridgeshire," said Dave.
"I also had three replies from different people who knew Tony when he was a bandsman, and they weren't aware that he had children, so they must have left when they were fairly young.
"The first person to ring me said Tony had lodged next door to him as a single man in about 1960."
The clues are now directing Dave's quest to the March area of Cambridgeshire, and he is planning to contact a local paper there to see if anybody in that area can help.
Anyone with any further information can contact him at Dave Percival, Llanynghenedl, Anglesey LL65 3DA, or at typeredur@btinternet.com by email.
