An Officers Second World War 'Home Front' & Cadet Forces long service medal pair: 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 miniature medals see item code 24576 which is being listed for sale separately

Condition: EF

Code: 25477