A Toronto woman is delighted to learn that a silver ID bracelet her late father lost on a German battlefield during the Second World War has been found.

Maureen Torreiter says a radio report and the Internet helped her track down the memento from her late father, Allan Edwards.

The bracelet was recently found by a Dutch man using a metal detector in the Reichswald Forest, the site of fighting between Allied and Nazi troops during the final advance into Germany.

Edwards drove an ammunition truck during the operation. He was injured when his truck was hit by an artillery shell but later rejoined the front lines.

The Dutch man contacted Edmonton's Don Fowler who runs a website dedicated to preserving the memories of Canadian soldiers, called Canadian Heroes, and asked him to help find the bracelet's owner.

Fowler posted a picture of the bracelet, which is inscribed with the name "A.O. Edwards'' and carries his service number and the crest of the Toronto Scottish Regiment. The back of the bracelet reads: "Allan from Florence, Xmas 1942.''

Florence was Torreiter's mother.

Maureen Torreiter heard about the search from a radio report and immediately contacted Fowler. She told Canada AM Thursday that the family will warmly welcome the return of the bracelet, since very few mementoes of her father's war days remain.

"We have pictures and a few things --a photo of him with his group and a postcard that he sent my mom from somewhere in Germany and his medals --but other than that, no."

Torreiter says she didn't even know about the bracelet because her father, who died at the age of 51 when she was 21, didn't talk about his war days.

"It was more of a shock because no one in the family knew about it. My dad was very private about the war. He never talked about it. So it's just like a bolt out of the blue."

Torreiter says she disappointed that her mother will never know that the Christmas gift she gave her husband all those years ago has been found.

"My mother just passed away in August, so it was upsetting -- I mean, if we had had it a little earlier, then she would have known before she passed away," she said. "But I'm definitely looking forward to seeing it and getting it."

Fowler, who runs the website that is helping to reunite Torreiter with the heirloom, says his site often helps with searches that involve Canadian soldiers. Usually he just posts the information and lets Web users take it from there.

"This time, we did a little bit more digging, because the regiment was known," he told Canada AM.

He has two contacts who are associated with the Regiment and he got them involved.

"And, thankfully, they really took the search to heart and they put everything into it. And thanks to them, we got a quick response. I was really surprised."

"We look forward to Maureen having the bracelet as a remembrance of her father."