Casgliadau Arlein

Medal box addressed to Mr R.H. Holder. Used to send the three Second World War medals, 1939-1945 Star, The Pacific Star, and War Medal 1939-1945.

Part of a collection of items belonging to Ronald Holder. Ronald Holder was born in Abercynon in 1914. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Signals. Early in the war he was captured in Java, and spent three and a half years as a Prisoner of War in the hands of the Japanese. He was liberated by the Gurkha’s and eventually came back to Wales via the troop ship M.V. Teglelberg.