A 93-year-old veteran of the Second World War says all of his personal documents, including irreplaceable papers from the war, were stolen in a robbery at his home in southwestern Ontario.

Frank Taylor, of Guelph, Ont., says thieves broke into the safe at his home and stole his insurance, birth certificate, military discharge papers and a number of other items he kept as souvenirs from his time with the Canadian military.

"Everything I owned," Taylor told CTV Kitchener. "Everything to say who I was. I have nothing left now. They cleaned the whole works of it."

Taylor says he'd stepped out of his home for a few hours on Friday morning. When he came back, one of his doors was damaged, his house was a mess and his safe was empty. The edge of the safe door was bent and showing signs of forced entry.

Taylor says he had collectible coins, jewellery, war payment records and about $1,000 in cash inside the safe at the time of the robbery, along with all of his important personal documents.

"They meant everything to me. What else have I got?" he said.

Police are investigating the break-in and are asking anyone with information to come forward.

Acting Staff Sgt. Tim Griffiths says it's unclear whether Taylor was targeted because he is a war veteran.

"We don't have any information that it might be something related to Remembrance Day," Griffiths said. "It just makes it that much worse that it was a veteran that was picked on."