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An 81-year-old man is seeking out his long-lost Cardiff relatives so that he can pass on his uncle’s war medals.

Leslie Burton, a retired advertiser from Norfolk, has held on to his uncle’s medals for the last 25 years.

“I’m getting old now and I want to find someone to have them before they get lost forever,” said Mr Burton.

Mr Burton’s uncle, Leslie Robert Burton, was born in Norwich but moved to Cardiff when he met his wife in the 1940s.

He worked as a cartographer for the Royal Engineers in Cardiff before he was sent off to fight in the Second World War. Over his time on the battlefield he earned a series of medals for his services.

“He handed me the medals before he died and I’ve looked after them since then,” said Mr Burton. “Now it’s time they were returned to somebody from his immediate family.”

Mr Burton is hoping that relatives of his uncle are still living in Cardiff.

He lost contact with his Welsh family in 1953 when his uncle got divorced from his wife.

His uncle then returned to live in Norwich, where he died in 1991.

Mr Burton has kept the medals since his uncle’s death and now needs to find someone else to look after them.

He believes his uncle’s daughter, Anne Ball, had three children. He thinks his cousins may still be living in Cardiff or in the surrounding areas.

And he has appealed for any living relative of his uncle to come forward and claim his medals and other keepsakes.