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Just to let you know I have managed to track down a relative of Rifleman J H Whitehead and the medal will be returned to the family next weekend. Thanks to people here for their interest, suggestions and research. Fantastic that Rifleman Whitehead has now found his family who will find out...

Someone on a War Medal site I use has managed to find descendants of Rifleman Whitehead. His sister married Arthur Antley in 1924 and they had 2 children. One of their children Eileen Antley married a James Stanley Phillips in 1945. They had three children. Two of whom were on the Electoral Roll...

Kemp Road, Alum Rock is where he found the medal.

The only number on the medal is his regimental number 6/1066

On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site that information appears but nothing else. I contacted a chap from the KRRC Association who said he was born in Birmingham but moved to London. IIRC my pal said he was working in Aston I think, but I’ll check with him tonight!

In my local an Irish builder said to me I found a medal when I was replacing a sewer pipe in Birmingham about 30 years ago. He brought in a 1914-18 Star that had been in a drawer for years! The name on it turns out to be Rifleman John Harris Whitehead, 12th Bn. KRRC who died on 21st March 1918...

A pal of mine found a 1914-18 Star with the above name on it. He found it about 30 years ago when replacing a sewer pipe in Birmingham. I’ve found out john was born in Birmingham and moved to London . He was killed in action on 21st march 1918 and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. The...