Mysterious photographs and stamps found on a supermarket floor have found their way home to their rightful owner.
Vera Medhurst, 93, said she went cold with shock when she opened last week’s Sutton Guardian and saw pictures of “her Horace” staring back at her.
The photographs, which date to World War II, when Horace Medhurst was posted as part of the Royal Army Service Corps, were found by staff at Sainsbury’s North Cheam last month and handed to the Sutton Guardian after staff failed to track down the owner.
Sadly, Mr Medhurst died 10 years ago and the pictures serve as a memento to his widow, Ms Medhurst, who lives in North Cheam.
She said: “When I couldn’t find them it was like losing Horace again. I searched the house high and low and had given up hope. When I opened my Sutton Guardian I went cold – I just couldn’t believe it.”
She has since been in touch with Sainsbury’s Cathy Rogers, who rescued the much-loved items, and plans to take her out for a coffee as thanks.
Horace and Vera, who met before the war but had to wait until the end of the conflict before marrying and settling in Peckham, had one daughter, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Medhurst revealed the accompanying stamps, originating from countries as far flung as Mali, Hungary and Madagascar, belonged to her late mother, Sarah-Anne White, but the mystery around them remains as she never found out why her mother owned them.
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