A positively attributed Officer's 'Home Front' & Cadet Forces long service pair of miniature medals: Flying Officer Frederick Beresford Dudley, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) 

- Defence Medal
- Cadet Forces Long Service Medal. GVI issue (Fg. Off. F.B. Dudley. R.A.F.V.R.(T)

Frederick Beresford Dudley son of Edgar John Dudley (a Telegraph and Electric Light Assistant Draughtsman & Estimator, with North Staffordshire Railway Company) and Annie Dudley (nee Hilditch) was a native of Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England, where he was born in 1903. At the time of the compilation of the 1921 National Census for England & Wales, Frederick is recorded employed - like his father - with the North Staffordshire Railway Company, where he is shown employed as an Telegraph and Electric Light Draughtsman and residing with his parents and 2 x younger siblings, viz sister Lily Dudley (b.1908), and brother Edgar Vincent Dudley (b.1916) viz & at the family residence located at Station Road, Endon, Stoke-On-Trent. In 1928, Frederick married Freda Burton at  Oakamoor, Staffordshire, England. Almost certainly employed in a reserved occupation for the course of the Second World War, this did not preclude Frederick from volunteering his services for Home Defence, and a role in training cadets for the Royal Air Force, when he obtained a commission as an Acting Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) with effect 9 July 1941. His subsequent 'Wartime' promotion to Pilot Officer, was effective from 9 July 1942. Frederick Beresford Dudley, resident of 40 Gallows Hill Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, is recorded to have died on 1 August 1960 at St. Pauls Hospital Hempel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England

The medals are mounted as-worn by the recipient in the swing-style. The silk ribands suspended from white metal mounting bars that each retain their long hinged pin and clasp fittings

For the recipients fill-size medals see item code 25477 which are being listed for sale separately

The sale item here is the 2 x miniatures only. The full-size medals are not include in the sale, and are only here being shown for provenance & illustrative purposes.

Condition: About EF

Code: 25476