War hero's medals to be auctioned

[History Hunter]

Medals belonging to a World War I hero who died alone in a rented west London flat are expected to fetch up to £180,000 at auction later this week. Click Here

[damnyankeeuk]

What a shame that he apparently had no family to treasure his medals. I hate to see them auctioned off, to disappear into a collectors cabinet.

[History Hunter]

What a shame that he apparently had no family to treasure his medals. I hate to see them auctioned off, to disappear into a collectors cabinet.

Any money raised by the auction should go to the charities that help our servicemen & women or the medals should have gone to the imperial war museum in memory of his heroic deeds.

[Rayredditch]

It´ll be used to pay his burial costs (Cheap as possible), and the rest will go to the Treasury. Sad news