The family of a First World War hero is set to be reunited with his Military Cross and four other medals stolen in a burglary 20 years ago.
Sue Packman, the granddaughter of Captain Soloman Davis, said she had thought any chance of retrieving the medals, taken from the family home in Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1996, "had died a death". It was "amazing and very exciting" to be on the brink of getting them back, she said.
Captain Davis served in the fourth battalion of the London regiment during the 1914-18 war. The inscription for his Military Cross states that "though severely wounded during an enemy counter-attack, he remained in command of his company, and it was largely owing to his courage and fine example that the position was held and consolidated".
Last year, Stephen Davis, Captain Davis's grandson, discovered that the medals had found their way to an auction house where they had been sold in 2014.
