A grieving granddaughter is asking for help from her fellow Queenslanders after her grandfather’s service medals were stolen from her home.
Annette Holder’s family held onto her grandfather’s service medals for 93 years, until they were stolen in an alleged break-in at her home in Eight Mile Plains, in Brisbane’s south, on Sunday.
Her grandfather earned the medals serving the British Navy during World War 1.
“I’m really devastated, devastated,” Holder said.
“[My dad] was able to keep those medals safe for nearly a century and I’ve lost them.
“I just hope they find somewhere deep inside to do the right thing just return them to my family…they mean nothing to you but they mean the world to us.”
The alleged thieves broke in with a crowbar, ransacking the home and taking the medals sometime between 10am and 1.30pm on Sunday.
“It was chaotic, they didn’t leave anything unturned…I have an urn with Mum and Dad’s ashes in my room that had been knocked over,” Holder said.
Jewellery she inherited from her late mother was also taken.
”It’s just like another bit of my mum has evaporated in front of me…there’s nothing there,” she said.
