A rare King’s Medal is at the centre of a display.
The medal is part of an exhibition at the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, which tells the story of Mrs Beryl Schaerer Morse, who was born in Pembroke Dock in 1887 and awarded the King’s Medal in 1952 for helping Allied servicemen during the Second World War.
Her granddaughter, Therese Burckhardt from Zurich, recently visited the centre to view the display and donate additional family records and photographs.
Ms Burckhardt said: "I am very pleased with how my grandmother’s medal and her story are displayed at the Heritage Centre and also pleased to bring more records to add to the archive there."
Mrs Morse led an organisation in neutral Switzerland during the war, helping Allied servicemen who had escaped into the country.
She was one of only 2,500 people to receive the King’s Medal.
Although she spent most of her life in Switzerland after marrying a Swiss banker in 1913, she considered Pembrokeshire her true home and returned regularly, spending summers at the family house in Tenby.
Ms Burckhardt first visited the Heritage Centre last summer with childhood friend Penny Tighe, bringing the medal and family documents with her.
On her latest visit, she donated more items for the archive.
Ms Tighe joined her again, along with Ruth Waddington, who now lives in the Tenby house built by Mrs Morse’s parents in the 1930s.
Mrs Morse died in 1967 and was buried near her father in Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock, as she had wished.
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