War poet's medal among items worth millions still posted missing

The Military Cross medal won by First World War poet Wilfred Owen was stolen last year, his family fear. The medal, like that pictured left, went missing from his nephew's Surrey home along with a silver cigarette case thought to have been given to the poet on his 21st birthday.

Thirteen artworks are still missing from the largest art theft in world history from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. A reward of $5 million is still offered for information leading to return of works by Vermeer (right), Rembrandt, Degas and Manet.

On 20 May, 2010, the Muse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris reported the theft of five paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, George Braque, Amedeo Modigliani (far right) and Fernand Lger.

On 11 February 2008, four major impressionist paintings were stolen from the Foundation E.G. Bhrle in Zrich, Switzerland. Two of the four were recovered but Czanne's The Boy in the Red Vest and Degas' Count Lepic and His Daughters are still missing.

A bronze sculpture called Reclining Figure 1969-70 (left) was stolen from the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire on 15 December, 2005. Thieves are believed to have lifted the 2.1-tonne statue on to the back of a Mercedes lorry using a crane. Police investigating believe it could have been stolen for scrap.