MARK Leautaud from the Netherlands recently received a bunch of photographs belonging to his father's grandfather.

This gentleman lived in the village of Steenbergen in the south of the Netherlands during the Second World War.

One of the pictures, right, is of an RAF air gunner and on the back is written 'Duncan Black, 59 Finnart Street, Greenock, Thanks for all, 12 September, 1946'.

Mark would love to know Duncan Black's background and why he thanked his father's grandfather all these years ago. He wonders if it is somehow linked with his forebear having made the coffins for Wing Commander Guy Gibson - of Dambusters' fame - and his navigator, Squadron Leader Jim Warwick, who both died after their Mosquito came down near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

Please get in touch if you can solve this mystery for Mark.

Meanwhile, here is an appeal which hopefully will lead to someone finally receiving a medal he won 70 years ago.

For more than 100 years Glasgow Museums has staged its annual young person's art competition.

A box containing more than 60 unclaimed competition medals from the 1940s was discovered a while ago.

And efforts are also continuing so that the medals go to their rightful owners.

One unclaimed medal is in a box marked Jas Leslie, Greenock High, 1943.

Older readers will be aware Jas. is an abbreviation for James less often used nowadays.

I would be pleased to hear from James Leslie or any member of his family.