A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage.

Herbert Sulzbach was a German Jew who served in the German Army during WW1 and was awarded the Iron ... the British Army in 1948 and received nine medals during the course of his life.

They appear as follows from left to right in the photograph: 1914/15 Private E.J. Davies, 1914/18 George V, 1914/19 The Great War for Civilisation, July 1918 military medal received in Italy for ...

Joel Davidson works at Cumbria's Museum of Military ... to a German Victoria Cross, where all ranks were eligible to receive the medal. The medal was awarded in the Franco-Prussian War, WW1 ...