JUBILEE 1887, clasp 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Ball, F. Divn.); CORONATION 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. W. Pragnall, W. Div.); CORONATION 1937; NAVAL LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (W.C. Ross, Private, R.M.L.I.), worn; ROYAL FLEET RESERVE LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (N. Giles, Sgt., R.F.R.), attempted erasure to surname; SPECIAL CONSTABULARY FAITHFUL SERVICE, G.V.R., 'Crowned bust' (Henry C. Loader); SOUTH AFRICA POLICE GOOD SERVICE, 3rd type (2/Sergeant F.J. Foard), very fine except where stated (7)

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JUBILEE 1887, clasp 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Ball, F. Divn.); CORONATION 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. W. Pragnall, W. Div.); CORONATION 1937; NAVAL LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (W.C. Ross, Private, R.M.L.I.), worn; ROYAL FLEET RESERVE LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, G.V.R., 'Admiral's bust' (N. Giles, Sgt., R.F.R.), attempted erasure to surname; SPECIAL CONSTABULARY FAITHFUL SERVICE, G.V.R., 'Crowned bust' (Henry C. Loader); SOUTH AFRICA POLICE GOOD SERVICE, 3rd type (2/Sergeant F.J. Foard), very fine except where stated (7)

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Acting Sergeant Dudley Alton was born in Melbourne in February 1922 and was a teacher in South Africa at the time of joining the S.A.A.F. in December 1941. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in May 1943, on gaining his Pilot's Wings, he was advanced to Lieutenant in November of the same year. Alton finished the War with the S.A.P.C., having transferred to that unit in June 1945, and was discharged at Pretoria in late 1946. Rejoining the S.A.A.F. as an Acting Sergeant in August 1947, he was posted to No. 68 Air School and joined No. 2 Squadron in Korea in September 1950, in which capacity he served until October 1951. Alton was finally discharged in early 1952.