Description
1939-45 Star, Atlantic, Africa, Burma, clasp Pacific, WW2 War Medal, Naval General Service, GVI, bar Minesweeping 1945-51, P/JX 170928 Robert William Holborn, Leading Seaman, Royal Navy.
NGS officially impressed: “P/JX 170298 R.W. Holborn. Ldg Smn. R.N.”
Display mounted, all medals and clasps original.
Robert William Holborn was born on 13th September 1924, in Bishop Auckland Durham.
Robert looks to have joined on with the Royal Navy as a boy, as the 1939 Register recalls him at home with his parents in Binchester being a recent “Evacuee from Training Ship Arethusa”.
In 1939 a mass evacuation was ordered for children from London, at the time Robert looks to have been a young trainee on the Training Ship Arethusa, aka HMS Peking.
Since July 1933, the Arethusa II, had served as a children’s home and training school for the Navy, mooring off Upnor on the River Medway, they got boys as young as 13 ready for a career in the Navy.
Robert died many years later in Keighley, Yorkshire during December 2002.
