A collection of wartime items discovered behind the Bulimba uniting church has uncovered a love story, after local historian Harold Peacock brought his metal detector to the site.
The buried items, including brooches, a rising sun Army badge, and several buttons, are deduced to have belonged to army nurse Marjory McDonagh and her sweetheart, Alfred Harrison.
Peacock suspected that Marjory was burying the memories of Officer Harrison after he married another local, while Marjory never married.