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This morning I read in the Victorian Wars Forum a post entitled 'Boer War Post Card Album", which included the following:

"Briefly -- My friend, a pilot, heard that someone was putting curbside for the garbageman, 2 boxes of Brit and German medals, helmets, those death pennies, some books and this album from the Victorian and WWI era. He drove 100Kms to save them. There they were curbside, with the garbage/recycling. The family/owners not interested in their distant relatives personal military stuff and some from POW's he handled. -- Sad but true."

I am amazed that in this day and age such incidents still happen. Fortunately, in this instance the relics were saved, but what else has ended up in landfills?

Brett

Hello Brett,
The use of "curbside" and "garbageman" says it all really, I take what I read on some forums with a pinch of salt, lots of strange people out there!
Frank

There are lots of people out there and we use those words overseas even if you don't in South Africa.

Lots of medals have been saved from the garbage (we don't call it rubbish here) and even more would be in land fill unfortunately.