Four: Cadet Major R. S. Pitt-Kethley, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Army Cadet Force

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R. (Cadet Major. R. S. Pitt Kethley); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Rupert S. Pitt-Kethley.) good very fine (4) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Rupert Singleton Pitt-Kethley was born at Leytonstone, Essex, on 9 April 1907 and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Territorial Force) on 16 January 1937. He was recalled from the T.A. Reserve for war service but only served at home during the Second World War, and was awarded the Cadet Forces Medal (along with a Second Award Bar) for service in the Dumfries Army Cadet Force (London Gazette 20 March 1951). A research note with the medals refers to him as the Reverend Rupert S. Pitt-Kethley but this has not been confirmed. He died at Hastings, Sussex, in 1975.