Casgliadau Arlein

Three Second World War medals issued to Ronald Holder. Three medals, 1939-1945 Star, The Pacific Star, and War Medal 1939-1945, are all mounted together on green felt board.

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.