Second Lieutenant Richard Anthony DUDMAN (1939)

1st Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, attached to 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Born 4 January 1920 in Fulham, London
Killed in action 11 February 1942, aged 22
Buried at El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

Richard Dudman was the youngest of the three sons of William James Dudman, and Nora Annie, née Curtis. William and Nora were killed by a German air raid at Ealing, London, on Thursday 26 September 1940, aged 52 and 49 respectively.

Richard was educated at St Paul’s School, and came up to Merton with a Classical Postmastership, leaving in 1940 to join up.

Richard’s brother Peter was killed in action in Italy in November 1943, and the following year his eldest brother James was also killed whilst flying on a bombing mission over Europe.