Lost artefact reunited with Harold's family after 80 years
In early March 1935 Harold Morley Starr was posted to X111 Squadron at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. At the same time he had a small dog, a Sealyham Terrier, called Rats. Harold enrolled Rats with the Tail Waggers Club and was issued with a collar medallion.
Soon after, some 80 years ago, whilst walking in fields near his future wife's home in Ruabon, North Wales, Rats lost his medallion.
It remained lost in North Wales for the next 50 years until it was found by local man Fred Morris when he was out metal detecting. It then spent the next 30 years hidden away, uncleaned, in a draw.
Only in 2018 was it cleaned and discovered to have belonged to Harold Morley Starr.
Thanks to Fred and his daughter Gillian, this piece of treasure has now just been reunited with Harold's family after 80 years.
June 2018
www.thetailwaggersfoundation.org
Soon after, some 80 years ago, whilst walking in fields near his future wife's home in Ruabon, North Wales, Rats lost his medallion.
It remained lost in North Wales for the next 50 years until it was found by local man Fred Morris when he was out metal detecting. It then spent the next 30 years hidden away, uncleaned, in a draw.
Only in 2018 was it cleaned and discovered to have belonged to Harold Morley Starr.
Thanks to Fred and his daughter Gillian, this piece of treasure has now just been reunited with Harold's family after 80 years.
June 2018
www.thetailwaggersfoundation.org
Harold Starr's dog Rats 25/12/1938
Found after 80 years
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Found after 80 years
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Harold's nephew, Sqn Ldr Peter Starr Mills, with the medallion 02/09/2018
Fred Morris, the man who found the medallion with his metal detector in the 1980’s.
