Notes
Richard Charles Rudkin, known as Dickie or Dick, was born in Middlesex on 14 January 1924, the only son of Helen (née Baynham) and Charles Rudkin, a printer’s machinist. He was educated at Hampton Grammar School from 1935 to 1941, where he was Captain of School.
Dickie Rudkin entered Worcester College, Oxford, on 9 October 1942 as an RAF Cadet on a wartime short course. He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on probation on the 10 March 1944 and was confirmed in his rank and promoted to Flying Officer on 10 September that year.
On 16 October 1945 Dickie Rudkin took off in a Tempest aircraft with 80 squadron from Lubeck-Blank en See in Germany for a training exercise. Flying Officer Richard Rudkin was killed in a crash while flying in a cloud. He was 21 years old.
Dickie Rudkin is buried at Hamburg Cemetery in Germany and commemorated on the war memorials at Hampton Grammar School and Worcester College, Oxford.