Dredger’s back story has him spending five years in the Royal Marine Commandos, being kicked out for brutality and becoming a mercenary in Africa.
DI6 Agent Dredger appears from the first issue of Action as an assassin and agent who gets the dirty jobs done, working with his more respectable colleague Breed. With the merger for Action into Battle Picture Weekly #142 – Battle 142, he loses Breed and transfers to work for Sir Peter Mason, controller of the Special Intelligence Service.