Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Photograph

unknown (Ffotograffydd | photographer)

Photograph showing Ronald Holder on the right with, from left to right, his sister Edith and his grandmother and great grandmother, 1940.

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.

Collection Area

Social & Cultural History

Item Number

F2023.3.52

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Holder, Ronald
Association Type: Owner

Creation/Production

Role: Ffotograffydd | photographer
Period: 1940

Acquisition

Donation (joint), 6/1/2023

Measurements

Length (mm): 86
Width (mm): 141

Techniques

Black and white (photograph)

Material

Paper

Categories

Second World War
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