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Dear all,

I am looking for the QSA of 6189 E G Chissel - may be engraved as a L/Cpl or Cpl

Many thanks

Andre Chissel

Dear all,

I would like to provide an update to my original post of almost 14 years ago. On February 5th, I received both an email and a message on messenger. I saw the message on messenger first and it read 'Hello, I have some news for you'. Yeah, sod off, bloody Nigerian scammer, I thought, so I ignored it and certainly did not click on it. Then I saw the email message entitled 'QSA to Chissel'.

As the green light was still on in messenger, I gambled that the two were connected and simply typed 'Ok' back in messenger. I was also reassured somewhat as the name of the individual on messenger, was a Simon Dickinson (which did not sound like a name that the Nigerian Minister for Home Affairs would use). He immediately messaged me back that he had found the medal to E Chissel.

My reply was 'My God. May I buy it ?'

Simon explained that it was on a dealer's site (The Medal Centre) and that he was about to buy it for himself but thought that he would run a check through the ABW site and saw my post of almost 14 years ago. Having seen this post that i am replying to, he thought that he would contact me first to see if I was still interested in buying it.

To cut a long story short, thanks to the kindhearted thoughtfulness of Simon Dickinson, an individual that I will be eternally grateful to, my relative's medal is now in my possession - back with the family - albeit a distant relative.

Andrew Jukes, who runs the Medal Centre was extremely accommodating, and I can recommend him to anyone wanting to buy from his shop, he is a delight to work with.

My own research disputes much of the write-up that accompanies the medal, but that is another story, the main thing is that after 14 years, it is now back with family.

Thank you ever so much Simon, I am overjoyed.

Andre

Well done to all involved!

I enjoy reading stories like this and agree that Andrew Jukes can be great to deal with.

Great work Simon & what comes around goes around.

Congratulations Andre! One of the greatest rewards from the medal collecting hobby is making a reunion of a split group or a return to family, which is usually accompanied by an exchange of further information from the family and maybe photographs if lucky.

Praise to Simon and Andrew for enabling the reunion. This QSA could have been in a collection for 40 or more years!!