Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

British War Medal 1914-20 (T-20502 Pte. F. Holder. A.S.C.) in named card box of issue, and outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. F. Holder, 93 Stone Street, West Perth, Western Australia’, extremely fine

Three: Private F. W. Holder, Royal Australian Engineers
War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, these both officially impressed ‘WX38990 F. W. Holder’; Australian Service Medal 1945-75, 1 clasp, PNG (WX38990 F. W. Holder); together with an added 1939-45 Star and a copy Pacific Star, these two both recently laser engraved ‘WX38990 F. W. Holder’, extremely fine (6) £60-£80

Frederick Holder was born at Greatham, Hampshire, in 1884 and attested for the Army Service Corps on 27 January 1903. He was recalled from the Reserve on 6 August 1914, and served at home until 26 January 1916, when he was discharged on the termination of his period of enlistment. He subsequently emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, and died there in 1964. The British War Medal was his sole entitlement.

Frederick Walter Holder, the son of the above, was born in Perth, W.A., on 11 June 1920 and attested there for the Australian Military Forces on 7 April 1941. He was mobilised on 14 January 1942, and served with the Royal Australian Engineers in New Guinea from 28 April 1945. He was discharged on 8 April 1946, and died in Perth on 28 September 2007.

Sold with the recipient’s Australian Military Force Army Driving Licence; an Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs Commemorative Medallion for the 60th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War 1945-2005; and copied research.