With 2015 marking a significant milestone, 100 years since the first landings at Gallipoli during World War I, Denise Eastwood is desperate to be reunited with her grandfather's lost war medals.

The medals were last in the possession of Ms Eastwood's father Norman Gow, who passed away in June 2013, and are assumed to have been misplaced when Mr Gow's wife Barb was shorting through some of his belongings.

Ms Eastwood said she is hoping that the British War Medal and the Victory Medal, belonging to her grandfather Harry James Gow, may still be in the area.

"I used to go up to Ararat on Anzac Day each year and Dad would march down the main street to the Town Hall for the service," she said.

"He always wore his own medals from World War II on one side and his father's on the other.

"After Dad died, Barb was cleaning up some of his things and she gave me his medals, which she said she found in the pocket of his coat, but she hasn't been able to find the other medals of my grandfather."

Ms Eastwood believes the medals may have still been in the pocket of Mr Gow's coat when it was donated to an opportunity shop in Ararat.

"It was in June of 2013 that Dad died, and I imagine the coat would have been donated within the next six months after that," she said.

"So it is more than a year ago now and if the medals were in the pocket and somebody has bought the coat they might have found them and still have them.

"I have written to the president of the Ararat RSL and asked if they have been handed in, but the chap replied to me and said no they hadn't."

Ms Eastwood and her sister are in the process of gathering family photos and memorabilia to be properly collated, stored and saved for future generations.

She said the medals would be fairly identifiable and she would be delighted to find Harry James Gow's two medals to add to that family history.

"It is really just a hope that someone may find them and return them to our family, because they really do mean a lot," she said.

"Because they are legitimate World War I medals, the name of the solider is engraved on the edge of the medal - not on the back or front, but along the narrow strip of edge - so you'll know if it is an original.

"You can get copies made quite easily, but of course you won't have that name engraved and a copy won't have the same sentimental value to us."

If anyone in the Ararat region is aware of the location of these missing medals, they are asked to contact The Ararat Advertiser office on 5352 2442.

They will then be put in touch with Denise Eastwood.