A FAMILY has finally been reunited with a First World War medal after a 30-year campaign by a man who found it in a well at Inverness Castle.
The discovery was made by a group of police officers who in 1984 decided to clean up the well following years of complaints from tourists about rubbish that had been thrown down it.
Coincidentally, the men were inside it on November 11 and could hear the local church bells ringing out to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, echoing the armistice.
Volunteer Peter Carson realised it was a British War Medal. It had been awarded to Private William Hogg of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders for service in the Great War.
Mr Hogg's grandson, retired vicar Iain McDonald, was finally traced. He came from Dawlish in Devon to Scotland this week and was presented with it.
Mr McDonald said: "The question remains: 'How did the medal get into the well?' We will never know the answer to that. Since my grandfather died in 1984 at the age of 93 and never spoke of the war, the mystery is unlikely to be solved."
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