A Waipukurau man who lost one of his father's World War II medals on Anzac Day has had the "priceless" medal returned to him.
Colin Brown, 80, was wearing all four war medals belonging to his late father, Tomihana Brown - a private with the 28th Maori Battalion's C Company who sailed to the Middle East with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force's 10th Reinforcements in July 1943 - when he attended Dawn Service in Waipukurau on Anzac Day.
Mr Brown was wearing a jacket and had his father's medals pinned to his chest. It was only later after he returned home and took off his jacket that he realised his father's New Zealand War Service Medal was missing.
His daughter, Taini Pakoti, was thrilled to report that, after the story appeared on the front page of the CHB Mail last week, a man contacted the family to say he had the medal in his possession.