A New Zealand military chaplain recently recovered a fallen airman’s war medals and reunited them with the man’s next of kin.

It cost the chaplain a few hundred dollars to perform this good deed, one which has seen them restored and presented to the aviator’s grand-niece.

Dying during an RAF bomber raid over Hamburg in 1942 during Winston Churchill’s terror bombing campaign on Germany, New Zealand Sergeant William O’Shea’s medals were given to his Widow Ann, before the family lost track of them in 1990.