Frederick Dudgeon
Frederick Dudgeon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1866 |
| Died | 1943 (aged 76–77) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Service years | 1885–1927 |
Rank | Major-General |
| Commands | 50th (Northumbrian) Division (1923–1927) 8th Infantry Brigade (1919–1921) 56th (1/1st London) Division (1917–1918) 42nd Infantry Brigade (1915–1917) 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (1915) |
Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Frederick Annesley Dudgeon, CB (1866–1943) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Dudgeon was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment on 29 August 1885.[1]
He attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1893 to 1894.[2]
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1912 when he took command of a battalion of his regiment.[3]
Dudgeon served on the Western Front in the First World War, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914,[4] as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, from 1915 and as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general,[5] of the 42nd Infantry Brigade from later that year. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1915 Birthday Honours,[6] and was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916.[7] In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general[8] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division.[9]
After the war Dudgeon became commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in October 1919 and then succeeded Major General Percival Spearman Wilkinson as GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division from July 1923,[10] before he retired from the army on 4 July 1927.[11][12]
References
- ↑ "No. 25506". The London Gazette. 28 August 1885. p. 4084.
- ↑ Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List. J. Murray. 1899. p. 118.
- ↑ "No. 28586". The London Gazette. 1 March 1912. p. 1561.
- ↑ "No. 28968". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 November 1914. p. 9109.
- ↑ "No. 29307". The London Gazette. 24 September 1915. p. 9436.
- ↑ "No. 12822". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 June 1915. p. 907.
- ↑ "No. 29534". The London Gazette. 4 April 1916. p. 3559.
- ↑ "No. 30281". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 September 1917. p. 9447.
- ↑ "Private Papers of Major-General F A Dudgeon". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ↑ "No. 32844". The London Gazette. 13 July 1923. p. 4854.
- ↑ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ↑ "No. 33292". The London Gazette. 8 July 1927. p. 4412.