I inherited my father’s war medals – now I’m being forced to bid on them

When Wg Cdr Clive Beadon, a Second World War pilot, died in 1996 he left behind an impressive collection of war medals. His only son who had inherited them allowed his stepmother to keep them at her home for safekeeping. When she died three years later, the home which the late Wg Cdr Beadon shared with his second wife was packed up and sold by a ho…